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The Dutch agreed that vessels bound to the Netherlands would first dock in Britain and submit to an inspection. Large amounts of smuggling and fraud meant much goods reached Germany regardless. [1] Dutch vessels used a channel from their coast via the Dogger Bank to the North Sea, which both the British and Germans pledged to keep safe ...
The Anglo–Dutch Wars (Dutch: Engels–Nederlandse Oorlogen) were mainly fought between the Dutch Republic (of continental Western Europe) and the Kingdom of England (later Kingdom of Great Britain on the off-shore island of Great Britain) in the mid-17th and late 18th century.
The main European powers recognized Belgium's de facto independence from the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Dutch expedition on the west coast of Sumatra (1831) Dutch Empire Aceh Sultanate: Victory: First Sumatran expedition (1832) United States Dutch Empire: Chiefdom of Kuala Batee Victory: Dutch–Ahanta War (1837-1839) Dutch Empire: Ahanta ...
Great Britain Hanover Dutch Republic Saxony Sardinia Russia East India Company France Prussia Spain. Spanish Empire; Bavaria Saxony Naples and Sicily Genoa Sweden French East India Company. French Allied victory in Europe but British victory outside of Europe. Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle: Defeat; Civil War: Jacobite rising of 1745 (1745–1746)
1688–1689 invasion of Britain by the Dutch Republic; 1683 invasion of Kingdom of Tungning by the Qing dynasty; 1683 invasion of Austria by Ottoman Empire; 1677 invasion of Vietnam by a Mạc army; 1674 invasion of Brandenburg by Sweden; 1673 invasion of Poland by Ottoman Turks; 1672 invasion of Dutch Republic by France with English support
Britain protests against the violation of Belgian neutrality, guaranteed by the Treaty of London (1839), The German Chancellor replies that the treaty is just a chiffon de papier (a scrap of paper). The United Kingdom declares war on Germany, automatically including all dominions, colonies, etc. of the British Empire including Canada, Australia ...
A French invasion of England was prevented in 1692, when a combined Dutch and English fleet Battles of Barfleur and La Hogue defeated the French fleet intended to cover the transportation of the invasion force. In 1691, the French did little more than help to carry away the wreckage of their allies and their own detachments. In 1692 a vigorous ...
This was a significant factor in the Dutch Republic being overtaken as the leading European maritime power by Britain during the War of the Spanish Succession. The change in regime also had an impact on England's overseas possessions in North America and the Caribbean.