Siege of Luxembourg (1684)

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Military plan for the Siege of Luxembourg.
Military plan for the Siege of Luxembourg.

In the 1684 Siege of Luxembourg, by Louis XIV of France (husband of Maria Theresa, daughter of Philip IV) in 1684, an action that caused alarm among France's neighbours and resulted in the formation of the League of Augsburg in 1686. In the ensuing war France was forced to give up the duchy, which was returned to the Habsburgs by the Treaty of Ryswick in 1697.

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