the United Provinces the right to garrison certain strongholds in the Austrian Netherlands. These were again occupied by France during the War of the Austrian Succession (1744-1748). The Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle returned them to Maria Theresa in 1748.

History

The Eighty Years' War (1568-1648) later led to a division of the Low Countries between the Dutch Republic

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