Editing Battle of Steenkerque (section)

==Aftermath==

For French historian Jean-Claude Castex and Belgian historian Erik Wauters, it was a victory for the French, as Louis XIV's army reppeled the Allied attack and held the ground, inflicting higher casualties to their opponents though in numerical inferiority (the Allied lost 10,000 casulaties and 1,3000 prisoners and the French captured 9 Allied stendards and 13 cannons).{{sfn|Castex|2012|p=333-334}} {{sfn|Wauters|Verbrugge|2022|p=15}}
German historian A. Straehle points out that the Allied had to leave the grounds, after the king of England called off the battle.{{sfn|Straehle|1853|p=240}}

But according to the historian [[John A. Lynn]] both sides could claim victory: the French for repelling the Allied attack, holding their ground and possibly foiling an attack on Namur, and the Allies for bloodying the noses of the French and perhaps preventing them from advancing towards Liège. After the battle, the two armies continued to oppose each other for the rest of the summer, but nothing significant happened before they went to winter quarters.{{sfn|Lynn|1999|p=227}}

During the battle, the Allies had held the advantage of greater firepower. They fought with the new [[flintlock]] muskets while the French had still fought with the old muskets. When Louis XIV heard from his generals that they would have lost had the Allied attack been better coordinated, Louis immediately demanded that his infantry be rearmed with the new musket. However, due to problems with manufacturers and resistance within the French officer corps, it took several years before every infantryman was equipped with the new weapons.{{sfn|Van Nimwegen|2020|p=86}}

Following the battle, some English politicians claimed their heavy losses were caused not through incompetence, but a deliberate act by Solms, and demanded his removal. These allegations were primarily driven by anti-Dutch sentiment and opposition to the war within [[Parliament of England|Parliament]], and cannot be substantiated.{{sfn|Holmes|2008|pp=181-182}} Presented with these claims when he returned to [[London]] in October, William simply agreed to consider it.{{sfn|Van Nimwegen|2020|p=230}} Solms died of wounds received at [[Battle of Landen|Landen]] the following year.