Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I te tau 1672, ka pakaru te Pakanga Franco-Dutch, me Brandenburg-Prussia i uru hei hoa o te Reipa o Netherlands. I ahu mai tenei hononga i runga i te tiriti o te 1669, a, i hua ai te nohoanga French o Brandenburg-Prussian Cleves. I te Pipiri 1673, ka whakarere a Frederick William i te hononga o te Netherlands ka mutu he kirimana takoha me France, i hoki mai i Cleves. I te whakapuaki a te Emepaea o Roma Tapu i te pakanga ki a France, ko te "Reichskrieg", ka huri ano a Brandenburg-Prussia i nga taha ka uru atu ki nga ope o te emepaea. I pehia e Wīwī tōna hoa ko Huitene ki te whakaora i a ia mā te whakaeke i a Brandenburg-Prussia mai i te raki. Ko Charles XI o Sweden, i whakawhirinaki ki nga takoha a French, i kaha ki te noho ki te Brandenburgian Uckermark i te 1674, ka tiimata te papa Tiamana o te Pakanga Scanian (Brandenburg-Swedish War). I tere te whakautu a Frederick William ma te hikoi i ana ope mai i te Rhine ki te raki o Brandenburg, ka tutaki ki te taha o muri o te ope Sweden, i te wa e whiti ana i te taiepa, i roto i te
Te Pakanga o Fehrbellin (1675). Ahakoa he pakanga iti mai i te tirohanga hōia, ko te wikitoria a Frederick William he nui te tikanga tohu. Ko te "Great Elector" i tiimata te whakaeke, i whai i nga ope Swedish e hoki ana ma te Swedish Pomerania.