The Nine Years' War and the British Army, 1688-1697: The Operations in the Low Countries
- ISBN-10
- 0719034612
- ISBN-13
- 9780719034619
- Category
- Benelux countries
- Pages
- 394
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1991
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press
- Authors
- John Childs, John Charles Roger Childs
Description
This is a description of how the Nine Years War affected the British Army, both in its actual operations in the theatre of war and in its size, operative capacity and costs. This war brought about radical changes in the sizes and the associated costs of the armies of Britain, France, Austria and the United Provinces in a relatively short period. For example, the size of field armies grew from an average of about 25,000 men during the Thirty Years' War to an average of about 100,000 men in 1695 during the Nine Years War. The costs of sustaining such huge field forces in terms of food, equipment and pay brought Britain and France, in particular, fiscal crisis and a shattered economy respectively, after the peace.
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