The
War of the Grand Alliance, also called the
War of the League of Augsburg and the
Nine Years War, was fought from
1688 to
1697 between
France under
Louis XIV and a European coalition known first as the
League of Augsburg and later (after 1689) as the Grand Alliance. At first England was to ally with France, but King
James II was deposed in the
Glorious Revolution, and his successor King
William III joined the Grand Alliance against the French. The North American campaigns of this war were known in the English colonies as
King William's War, also known as the
French and Indian Wars. The war ended with the
Treaty of Ryswick.