Question: who won the war of the grand alliance

title: Nine Years' War
text: In the Spanish Netherlands Luxembourg still had 100,000 men ; but he was outnumbered . Lacking sufficient supplies to mount an attack Luxembourg was unable to prevent the Allies garrisoning Dixmude and , on 27 September 1694 , recapturing Huy , an essential preliminary to future operations against Namur . Elsewhere , de Lorge marched and manoeuvred against Baden on the Rhine with undramatic results before the campaign petered out in October ; while in Italy , the continuing problems with French finance and a complete breakdown in the supply chain prevented Catinat 's push into Piedmont . However , in Catalonia the fighting proved more eventful . On 27 May Marshal Noailles , supported by French warships , soundly defeated the Marquis of Escalona 's Spanish forces at the Battle of Torroella on the banks of the river Ter ; the French proceeded to take Palamós on 10 June , Gerona on 29 June , and Hostalric , opening the route to Barcelona . With the Spanish King threatening to make a separate peace with France unless the Allies came to his assistance William III prepared the Anglo - Dutch fleet for action . Part of the fleet under Admiral Berkeley would remain in the north , first leading the disastrous amphibious assault on Brest on 18 June , before bombarding French coastal defences at Dieppe , Saint - Malo , Le Havre , and Calais . The remainder of the fleet under Admiral Russell was ordered to the Mediterranean , linking up with Spanish vessels off Cadiz . The Allied naval presence compelled the French fleet back to the safety of Toulon , which , in turn , forced Noailles to withdraw to the line of the Ter , harassed en route by General Trinxería 's miquelets . By shielding Barcelona in this way the Allies kept Spain in the war for two more years . Siege