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Record Nr.

UNINA9910965502403321

Autore

Satterfield George

Titolo

Princes, posts and partisans : the army of Louis XIV and partisan warfare in the Netherlands (1673-1678) / / by George Satterfield

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2003

ISBN

9786610467648

9781280467646

1280467649

9781423711810

1423711815

9789047402411

9047402413

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (370 pages)

Collana

History of warfare, , 1385-7827 ; ; v. 18

Disciplina

949.2/04

Soggetti

Dutch War, 1672-1678

France History Louis XIV, 1643-1715

Netherlands History 1648-1714

France History, Military

France Foreign relations 1643-1715

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [329]-333) and index.

Nota di contenuto

List of Tables -- List of Maps -- List of Plates -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Note on Money -- Introduction ... 1 -- Ch. 1 The Dutch War in the Netherlands ... 12 -- Ch. 2 Organizing the Imposition of Contributions and War Taxes ... 42 -- Ch. 3 The Garrison Force and Partisan Warfare ... 89 -- Ch. 4 Raids ... 132 -- Ch. 5 Field Armies as Source and Target of Partisan Warfare ... 179 -- Ch. 6 The Defense of the North of France ... 215 -- Ch. 7 Blockades ... 269 -- Epilogue ... 319 -- Bibliography ... 329 -- Index ... 335.

Sommario/riassunto

This volume explores French partisan warfare in the Spanish Netherlands during the Dutch War (1672-78). It considers such practices as contributions, fire-raids, and blockades before sieges. The author relies extensively on archival sources, and in many cases



explores events that have been passed over by similar studies. Louis XIV and his generals used partisan warfare to fit a strategy of exhaustion to ensure territorial conquest. The French army's reliance on partisan warfare reveals the limitations of the war-making potential of Louis XIV's state; at the same time it leads to the emergence of a more modern practice of military operations to pursue theater-strategic objectives.