Franco-Dutch War Franco-Dutch War The Franco-Dutch War (1672–78), often simply called the Dutch War (; ), was a war fought by France, Sweden, Münster, Cologne and England against the Dutch Republic, which was later joined by the Austrian Habsburg lands, Brandenburg-Prussia and Spain to form a Quadruple Alliance. The war ended with the Treaty of Nijmegen, by which Spain ceded the Franche-Comté and some cities in Flanders and Hainaut to France, while France returned some of its conquests (Maastricht and the Principality of Orange) to the Dutch. The year 1672, when a full invasion of English, French and German forces took much
Comparison of Afrikaans and Dutch languages, a member of a council or councillor is "raadslid". Whereas Dutch uses an apostrophe with an "s" as in English to form the genitive, or alternatively an "s" without an apostrophe, Afrikaans uses "se", hence "Maria's huis" and "haar broers probleem" would be "Maria se huis" and "haar broer se probleem" respectively. Afrikaans, like Dutch, has possessive pronouns to indicate ownership, hence "joune" and "jouwe", although Afrikaans omits the use of the definite article, hence "is dit jou glas of syne?" ("is that your glass or his?") in contrast to "is dat jouw glas of het zijne?" in Dutch.