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Group: Gullah
People: Philo
Topic: Devolution, War of
Location: Nguigmi Diffa Niger

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.

“That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.”

― Aldous Huxley, in Collected Essays (1959)