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Group: Bishnoi
People: Placidia
Topic: Devolution, War of
Location: Thespiae Greece

Devolution, War of

Years: 1667 - 1668

The War of Devolution sees Louis XIV's French armies overrun the Hapsburg controlled Spanish Netherlands and the Franche-Comté, but forces France to give most of it back by a Triple Alliance of England, Sweden, and the Dutch Republic in the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle.

“Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce”

― Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire...(1852)