ABSTRACT
Europe. They also drove the nations of Europe (Austria, Spain, Sweden, Bavaria, Saxony, and the Palatinate) to form the League of Augsburg in 1686 and to ally with the Dutch and the English in 1689 to resist French aggression. e English shared these fears that the greatness of France would endanger the liberties of Europe, but they had a further reason for declaring war: Louis XIV in March 1689 gave James II the men, money, and ships with which to return to Ireland to recover the Crown he had lost. For the English, the War of the League of Augsburg was also the War of the English Succession.
