Rampjaar

The rampjaar ("disaster year") was the year 1672 in Dutch history. In that year, the Republic of the Seven United Provinces was after the outbreak of the Franco-Dutch War and the Third Anglo-Dutch War attacked by England, France, and the prince-electors Bernhard von Galen, bishop of Münster and Maximilian Henry of Bavaria, the bishop of Cologne. The invading armies very quickly defeated the Dutch States Army and conquered a large part of the Republic.