ideas for a successful french/munsterite/english conquest of the netherlands in 1672.

i already created a scenario where france conquers the united provinces on another website.......but it dident include the munsterites.........my thoughts are that Louis XIV, having brought the dutch to their knees, would make a move to absorb the cape, ceylon and the east indies into the french empire, the english were still a few decades away from being the naval power that ruled the seas and as charles was an ally, i doubt he would try to provoke a conflict with the sun king, who, if he wasnt before, would certainly be the most powerful monarch on the continent after the dutch conquest. in any case im sure louis could throw him a bone and conced a small territory in the carribbean to keep the english happy.......


anyways im open to all ideas for this one!
 
I don't see how that would sit with the Hapsburgs. The Spanish are weak but the Austrians I'm sure wouldn't be too appreciative. You'd probably see the German states get Austria involved and big war, probably just an earlier 30 years war or somehing like.

Mor eikely is Louis annexnig up to the Rhine and putting a puppet French king on the throne of the Netherlands. The Dutch colonial empire would remain theirs, although Louis would pobably be in a more favourable position to expand France's holdings.
 
the french where already engaged in ceylon at the time, trincomalee had been taken.........with a dutch defeat/surrender, the island would probably be taken fron dutch control altogether, though i could see the east indies and the cape remaining under the rule of a puppet king/stadholder
 
The advance of the French troops of Louis XIV was, according to one story, only delayed by the handsome doughters of a brewer. They entertained a small group of scouts of the French army. If thes scouts had returned imidiatly, with their information of the poor conditions of the last defence line of Holland (Waterline at Muiden) then Louis could make his plans come through;
The French Norhten border would end at the river Rhine.
The Bishop of Munster would take Friesland, Groningen, Gelre and Over IJsel.
Holland and Zeeland could perhaps left independent, or a protectorate of England or also a part of Munster.

For the overseas possesions, these were not colonies, like the English or French North American communities of mostly Europeanfarmers and craftsmen.
The Caribean and Asian possesions were profit centers, were geographical size did not matter.
The now insignificant dots in the Caribean were, at that time, presious points of slave and sugar trade or in Asia of spice and other luxurious goods who could generate fortunes in Europe.
Most likely Louis XIV would keep most of these Caribian islands and Asian trading posts, only a few to keep Charles content ( for a while)
 
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