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Negotiations started in May. The in Ryswick . For the first few weeks no result was reached, so in June the two protagonists in the struggle, William III Of England and Louis XIV Of France , each appointed one representative to meet together privately. The two chosen were William Bentinck, Earl Of Portland , and Marshal Boufflers , and they soon drew up the terms of an agreement, to which, however, the Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I and Charles II Of Spain would not assent. But in a short time Spain gave way, and on 20 September a treaty of peace was signed between France and the three powers, England, Spain and the United Provinces. William then persuaded Leopold to make peace, and a treaty between France and the Holy Roman Empire was signed on the following 30 October . The basis of the peace was that all towns and districts seized since the Treaty Of Nijmegen ( 1679 ) should be restored. Then France surrendered Freiburg , Breisach and Philippsburg - to the Holy Roman Empire, although she kept Strasbourg . On the other hand, she was granted Saint-Domingue (later to become Haiti ) and regained Pondicherry (after paying the Dutch a sum of 16,000 pagodas) and Nova Scotia , while Spain recovered Catalonia , and the barrier fortresses of Mons , Luxembourg and Kortrijk . The Duchy Of Lorraine , which for many years had been in the possession of France, was restored to Leopold Joseph , a son of Charles IV, Duke Of Lorraine , and the Dutch were to be allowed to garrison some of the chief fortresses in the Spanish Netherlands , including Namur and Ypres . Louis undertook to recognize William III as king of England, and promised to give no further assistance to James II Of England ; he abandoned his interference in the electorate of Cologne and also the claim which he had put forward to some of the lands of the Electoral Palatinate . SEE ALSO REFERENCES |
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