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Barrier Treaties

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October 29, 1709
January 29, 1713
November 15, 1715
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treaties of Rastatt and Baden

Barrier Treaties, three treaties negotiated between 1709 and 1715 granting the United Provinces of the Netherlands (the Dutch republic) the right to garrison and govern certain towns along the southern boundary of the Spanish (subsequently the Austrian) Netherlands as protection against attack by France. By the First Barrier Treaty (Oct. 29, 1709) Great Britain agreed to support the restoration to the United Provinces of the fortresses that it had been granted by the Treaty of Rijswijk (1697), which had been lost to the French in 1701. In return the United Provinces undertook to support the succession of the house of ...(100 of 236 words)

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