User:Lord Cornwallis/Old System

The Old System refers to a set of alliances that existed between 1688 and 1756. In Britain it was known as the Old System because of -.

it incorporated the Anglo-Dutch Alliance and the Anglo-Austrian Alliance, but began to fall apart in the 1740s.

It was --- the Duke of Newcastle. Because of its close association with him for many years, the policy was sometimes also known as Newcastle's System. Adherents to the policy were often known as Continentalists.

Background
Many European states had been alarmed by the increasing power of France during the seventeenth century, and the expansionist policies of Louis XIV.

Fearful that England would again be brought into the war on the French side, William launched an invasion of Britain ousting the reigning monarch James II and becoming dual monarch with his wife in the Glorious Revolution and the Constitutional settlement that followed it.

As leader of the Dutch Republic, William’s aim was to stop the French drive northwards -

During the Nine Years War England and the Dutch joined with a series of nations to