The British government , working with the exiled Stadtholder William of Orange , ordered Arranging the seizure of Batavian assets including colonies of the former Dutch Empire .

While the war 's Irish name emphasises its aspect as a domestic conflict between James and William , some contemporaries and many modern commentators have viewed Perception_active it as part of a wider European conflict known as the Nine Years ' War or War of the Grand Alliance in which William , as Stadtholder of the Dutch Republic , led a multi-national coalition against France under Louis XIV .