The rise Motion_directional of Bourbon France , the curtailing of Habsburg ambition , and the ascendancy of Sweden as a great power created Creating a new balance of power on the continent , with France emerging Coming_to_be from the war strengthened Cause_change_of_strength and increasingly dominant in the latter part of the 17th century .

Leopold I and the German princes resolved Resolve_problem to resist , and when the States General and William III brought Bringing the Dutch and the English into the war Hostile_encounter against France , the French king faced a powerful coalition aimed Aiming at curtailing his ambitions .