The Hague Conference for peace negotiations is opened
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- Editors
Short Note 
After disastrous losses at the battles of Oudenarde and Lille,
Louis XIV seeks to negotiate a peace by sending his foreign
minister, the Marquis de Torcy, to meet allied commanders at The
Hague. Louis agrees to give up all his Spanish territories to the
Allies, and to supply money to aid the expulsion of Philip V from
Spain. However, the Allies demands the humiliating condition that
Louis use his own army to dethrone his own grandson Philip, which
he is not prepared to accept. This leads to the resumption of
warfare.