TY - BOOK ID - 18074209 TI - Princes, posts and partisans : the army of Louis XIV and partisan warfare in the Netherlands (1673-1678) PY - 2003 VL - 18 SN - 9004131760 9786610467648 1423711815 1280467649 9047402413 9781423711810 9789047402411 9789004131767 9789004131767 PB - Leiden; Boston : BRILL, DB - UniCat KW - Dutch War, 1672-1678. KW - Anglo-Dutch War, 1672-1674 KW - Dutch War, 1672-1678 KW - Engels-Nederlandse oorlog (3de), 1672-1674 KW - Guerre anglo-neerlandaise (3eme), 1672-1674 KW - Guerre de Hollande, 1672-1678 KW - France KW - Netherlands KW - Pays-Bas KW - History KW - History, Military KW - Foreign relations KW - Histoire KW - Histoire militaire KW - Relations extérieures KW - Louis XIV, 1643-1715 KW - 1648-1714 KW - History [Military ] KW - 1643-1715 KW - Diplomatic relations. KW - Franco-Dutch War, 1672-1678 KW - History, Military. KW - History of France KW - History of the Low Countries KW - anno 1600-1699 UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:18074209 AB - 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. ER -