Country
and
inhabitants
are
suffering
for
the
damages
they
had
caused
their
regents.
Further
more,
both
are
also
suffering
heavily
from
the
wars
conducted
by
the
French
King
Ludwig
XIV,
who
with
his
troups,
beside
other
cities,
also
destroys
Bruxelles completely in
1695
.
As
a
result
of
the
War
of
Spanish
Succession
1701
-1714,
with
the
Peace
of
Utrecht
in
1713
,
the
Spanish
possessions
in
the
Netherlands
become
Austrian
possessions.
In
the
course
of
the
War
of
Austrian
Succession
1740-1780,
Moritz
of
Saxony
in
attendance on France conquers the Austrian Netherlands and invades Holland.
In
1792
,
France
declairs
war
against
Austria.
In
course
of
this
war,
which
lasts
until 1797, France among other territory, occupies Belgium completely.
In
1793
,
the
Austrian
Netherlands
are
recaptured
by
a
coalition
formed
by
Holland,
Austria,
Prussia,
Great
Britain,
Spain,
Sardinia,
Naples,
Portugal
and
the Roman-German Empire.
With
the
new
occupation
by
France
in
1795,
the
Austrian
regency
finally
ends
in
1797
with the
Peace of Campo Formio
.