Amsterdam Coalition

The Amsterdam Coalition was a short-lived alliance created against France during the Great Mediterranean War, founded by the UDK, which lasted between 1515 and 1517 (Episode X Part 2) during Varna.
During 1515, the 15th Anglo-French War was taking place. April 19th saw an event known as the Dover Crisis, where France sunk a fleet in the Dover Strait which they believed to be English. However, the ships turned out to be Dutch, and the UDK therefore ended their neutrality and declared war on France, requesting that others follow suit. To that end, all of France's neighbours (except Barcelona) formed the Amsterdam Coalition, and those who were not already fighting France now began invading them.
The members of this coalition were the UDK, England, Castile, Savoy, Provence (ruled by Naples), Liège, Lorraine, Luxembourg, and Bourgogne.
Barcelona did join in in September 1515, in order to capture Roussillon. By that time, an invading army from the northeast had come dangerously close to the French capital of Paris, so France surrendered and was forced to agree to the Treaty of Zaragoza in October. This allowed everyone in the Amsterdam Coalition to leave the war, except Castile (soon to be Spain), Savoy and Provence, who continued to fight in the war against the League of Cairo.
The alliance was dissolved at some point in the 1520s.
Category:Varna Alliances