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There is also a regular conjugation, which is more common in the south. In some dialects, a similar conjugation is followed for leggen ("to lay"). Irregular: zeggen, zei / zeiden, gezegd. The irregular gij-form of the past is zeidt. Regular: zeggen, zegde / zegden, gezegd. The regular gij-form of the past is zegde(t).
Spain was allied with France through the Bourbon Family Compact and the Revolution was an opportunity to confront their common enemy, Great Britain. As the newly appointed Chief Minister of King Charles III of Spain , the Count of Floridablanca wrote in March 1777, "the fate of the colonies interests us very much, and we shall do for them ...
Some of the most used verbs in the Dutch language have irregular conjugations which don't follow the normal rules. This includes especially the preterite-present verbs. These verbs historically had present tense forms that resembled the past tenses of strong verbs, and can be recognised in modern Dutch by the absence of the -t in the third ...
The Spanish American wars of independence (Spanish: Guerras de independencia hispanoamericanas) took place across the Spanish Empire in the early 19th century. The struggles in both hemispheres began shortly after the outbreak of the Peninsular War , forming part of the broader context of the Napoleonic Wars .
The decolonization of the Americas occurred over several centuries as most of the countries in the Americas gained their independence from European rule. The American Revolution was the first in the Americas, and the British defeat in the American Revolutionary War (1775–83) was a victory against a great power, aided by France and Spain, Britain's enemies.
The Fourth Anglo-Dutch War (Dutch: Vierde Engels-Nederlandse Oorlog; 1780–1784) was a conflict between the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Dutch Republic.The war, contemporary with the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783), broke out over British and Dutch disagreements on the legality and conduct of Dutch trade with Britain's enemies in that war.
The decline of Spanish global power; Third Dutch-Zamorin War (1701-1710) Dutch East India Company: Zamorin of Calicut: Victory: First Javanese War of Succession (1704–1707) Dutch Republic Mataram Sultanate: Victory: Dutch-Algerian war(1715-1726) [8] Dutch Republic Ottoman Algeria: Victory: Fourth Dutch-Zamorin War (1715-1718) Dutch East India ...
The Spanish Netherlands (Spanish: Países Bajos Españoles; Dutch: Spaanse Nederlanden; French: Pays-Bas espagnols; German: Spanische Niederlande) (historically in Spanish: Flandes, the name "Flanders" was used as a pars pro toto) [4] was the Habsburg Netherlands ruled by the Spanish branch of the Habsburgs from 1556 to 1714.