The
Nine Years' War (1688–97) – often called the
War of the Grand Alliance or the
War of the League of Augsburg – was a major war of the late 17th century fought between King
Louis XIV of France, and a European-wide coalition, the
Grand Alliance, led by the Anglo-Dutch
Stadtholder-King William III, Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I, King
Charles II of Spain,
Victor Amadeus II of Savoy, and the major and minor princes of the
Holy Roman Empire. The Nine Years' War was fought primarily on mainland Europe and its surrounding waters, but it also encompassed a
theatre in Ireland and
in Scotland, where William III and
James II struggled for control of the British Isles, and a campaign in colonial North America between French and English settlers and their respective Indian allies, called “King William’s War” by the English colonists.