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Ryswick

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Rys·wick  (rzwk)
See Rijswijk.

Ryswick [ˈrɪzwɪk]
n
(Placename) the English name for Rijswijk


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It remained under them till September 13, 1699 when, under the Treaty of Ryswick signed in Europe, Pondicherry was returned to the French.
He ignores the series of articles published by the late Professor Mark Thomson on international diplomacy in the 1690s, which not only would have provided the author with a much more sophisticated view of the Treaty of Ryswick and the Partition Treaty negotiations, but might also have tempered his high estimate of Bentinck's importance in those matters.
Expanding their influence and claiming their own rights within the region, the French finally obtained official control of the western part of the island in 1697 in the Treaty of Ryswick.
 
 
 
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