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The Storming of Coevorden, 30 December 1672 by Pieter Wouwerman (c. 1672–1682). The Disaster Year ended on a positive note, as Coevorden was recaptured from the troops of the Bishop of Münster on December 30, 1672. The French had advanced from the IJssel to Utrecht. By that time, negotiations had begun.
1672 was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar, the 1672nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 672nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 72nd year of the 17th century, and the 3rd year of the 1670s decade. As of the start of 1672, the ...
The sieges of Coevorden were two separate sieges of the city of Coevorden located in Drenthe in the Netherlands.The first siege was launched for Bernhard von Galen to make further progress in his conquests in the Eastern and Northern Netherlands, and the second on with the intention to recapture the city as an aftermath of the siege of Groningen.
This is an incomplete list of Dutch Republic villages, country houses and castles, that were destroyed or seriously damaged by French troops in 1672/1673 during the Rampjaar (Disaster Year) [1] [2] in the Franco-Dutch War. In this Guerre de Hollande the strategy of the troops of the French king Louis XIV was "to burn as much as possible.
The 1672 to 1674 Third Anglo-Dutch War and 1675 to 1679 Scanian War are considered related conflicts. Fighting began in May 1672 when France nearly overran the Netherlands , an event remembered in Dutch history as the Rampjaar , or "Disaster Year".
The speed with which the Republic was over-run in 1672 means it is still referred to as the Rampjaar or 'Year of disaster'. On 7 May, a French army of around 80,000 entered Liège; accompanied by Louis, they bypassed the Dutch stronghold of Maastricht , crossed the Meuse and besieged the Dutch-held Rhine fortress towns of Rheinberg , Orsoy ...
The year 1672 is known in the Netherlands as the "Disaster Year" . England declared war on the Republic, (the Third Anglo-Dutch War), followed by France, Münster and Cologne, which had all signed alliances against the Republic. France, Cologne and Münster invaded the Republic.
He had promised the major Dutch cities to the British and tried to extort huge sums from the Dutch in exchange for a separate peace. The bishop of Münster laid siege to Groningen but failed. 1672 is known as the rampjaar ("disaster year") in Dutch history, in which the country only nearly survived the combined English-French-German assault.