Editing Victor Amadeus II (section)

===Nine Year' War===
[[File:Maria Giovanna Battista Clementi, La Clementina, Portrait of Victor Amadeus II of Savoy, during the siege of Turin (1706), Reggia di Venaria (from Castle of Racconigi).jpg|thumb|Victor Amadeus in 1706; during the [[Siege of Turin]]|453x453px]]
At the start of the Nine Years' War, Savoy had three regiments in the service of France in [[Flanders]]. Victor Amadeus struggled throughout the early part of the war to bring those troops back to his own use.{{sfn|Storrs|1999|p=32}} Part of the agreement he reached with the Grand Alliance against France was that they would enable him to recover [[Pinerolo]],{{sfn|Storrs|1999|p=1}} which his predecessor and [[Victor Amadeus I, Duke of Savoy|namesake]] had lost decades before. In 1692, he was the only member of the Grand Alliance to bring the war to French lands, invading the [[Dauphiné]]. In 1695 and 1696, he secretly negotiated a separate treaty with [[Louis XIV of France]] which included the return of Pinerolo to Savoy.{{sfn|Storrs|1999|p=2}} Throughout the war, he greatly increased the size of the army of Savoy from about 8,500 to more than 24,000.{{sfn|Storrs|1999|p=24}}

[[File:Western Europe Utrecht Treaty.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Map of Western Europe in 1713; the [[Duchy of Savoy]] can be seen yellow in the centre.]]