text: French armies were generally victorious throughout the war because of Imperial commitments in 
  the Balkans, French logistical superiority, and the quality of French generals such as Condé's 
  famous pupil, François Henri de Montmorency-Bouteville, duc de Luxembourg.[81] He triumphed 
  at the Battles of Fleurus in 1690, Steenkerque in 1692, and Landen in 1693, although, the battles 
  proved to be of little of strategic consequence,[82][83] mostly due to the nature of late 17th-century 
  warfare.[84] 
  
  Although an attempt to restore James II failed at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690, France 
  accumulated a string of victories from Flanders in the north, Germany in the east, and Italy and 
  Spain in the south, to the high seas and the colonies. Louis personally supervised the captures of 
  Mons in 1691 and Namur in 1692. Luxembourg gave France the defensive line of the Sambre by 
  capturing Charleroi in 1693. France also overran most of the Duchy of Savoy after the battles of 
  Marsaglia and Staffarde in 1693. While naval stalemate ensued after the French victory at the 
  Battle of Beachy Head in 1690 and the Allied victory at Barfleur-La Hougue in 1692, the Battle of 
  Torroella in 1694 exposed Catalonia to French invasion, culminating in the capture of Barcelona. 
  The Dutch captured Pondichéry in 1693, but a 1697 French raid on the Spanish treasure port of Cartagena, Spain, yielded a 
  fortune of 10,000,000 livres. 
  
  Louis XIV at the siege of 
  Namur (1692) 