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The war against the American rebels continued onwards, and after seven long years of conflict without being able to triumph over the Americans, the British decided to recognise the independence of the United States in the Treaty of Paris in 1783, bringing an end to the war. The Fourth Anglo-Dutch war, however, went far better for the British ...
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 Anglo-Dutch wars of the seventeenth century (1996) online; the fullest military history. Kennedy, Paul M. The rise and fall of British naval mastery (1983) pp. 47–74. Konstam, Angus, and Tony Bryan. Warships of the Anglo-Dutch Wars 1652–74 (2011) excerpt and text search; Levy, Jack S., and Salvatore Ali.
The Battle of Dogger Bank was a naval battle that took place on 5 August 1781 during the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War, contemporaneously related to the American Revolutionary War, in the North Sea. It was a bloody encounter between a British squadron under Vice Admiral Sir Hyde Parker and a Dutch squadron under Vice Admiral Johan Zoutman , both of ...
St. Eustatius, a Dutch-controlled island in the West Indies, was an entrepot that operated as a major trading centre despite its relatively small size. During the American War of Independence it assumed increased importance, because a British blockade made it difficult to transport supplies directly across the Atlantic Ocean to US ports.
The Third Anglo-Dutch War came to an end with the signing of the Treaty of Westminster between the English and the Dutch in 1674. Fourteen years later the Glorious Revolution , which saw Stadtholder William III ascend the throne of England, put an end to the Anglo-Dutch conflicts of the 17th century.
The Battle of Scheveningen [a] was the final naval battle of the First Anglo-Dutch War. It took place on July 31st 1653 [b] between the fleets of the Commonwealth of England and the Dutch Republic. The Dutch fleet suffered heavy losses.
But on 9 August 1673 , during the Third Anglo-Dutch War, a Dutch naval squadron under the joint command of Cornelis Evertsen the Youngest and Jacob Binckes retook New York in the Reconquest of New Netherland and the Dutch held on to the colony under governor Anthony Colve for more than a year, until they exchanged it for the colony of Suriname ...