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Dutch Gold Coast sold to Britain in 1872; Aceh War (1873-1904) Dutch Empire: Aceh Sultanate Acehnese religious ulama Thai and Chinese mercenaries Victory. Imposition of Dutch rule on Aceh. Aceh is annexed into the Dutch East Indies. Batak War (1878-1907) Dutch Empire: Batak Kingdom Victory: Mandor rebellion (1884-1885) Dutch Empire: Lanfang ...
Until deep into the 19th century, the now Venezuelan islands of Aves, the Aves archipelago, Los Roques and La Orchila were also considered by the Dutch government to be part of the Dutch West Indies. The Netherlands Antilles remained an overseas territory of the Netherlands. It was granted self-rule in 1954.
The Habsburg family had ruled the Low Countries from 1482; the area became part of the Spanish Empire under the Spanish Habsburgs in 1556; however, in 1568 the Eighty Years' War (1568-1648) broke out, and the Dutch established the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands in 1581. As part of the war, Dutch raiders attacked Spanish lands ...
1641–1667 First Beaver War in the Great Lakes region; 1643–1645 Kieft's War in New Netherland; 1644–1647 Claiborne and Ingle's Rebellion in Maryland; part of the English Civil War; 1644–1646 Third Anglo–Powhatan War following Opechancanough's Massacre in Virginia; 1655 Battle of the Severn in Maryland; part of the English Civil War
Though the Dutch would again take New Netherland in 1673, during the Third Anglo-Dutch War, it was returned to England the following year, thereby ending Dutch rule in continental North America, but leaving behind a large Dutch community under English rule that persisted with its language, church and customs until the mid-18th century. [64]
The Dutch conquered New Sweden in 1655 but, during the Second Anglo-Dutch War, surrendered New Netherland to the English following the capture of New Amsterdam. In 1673, the Dutch retook the colony but relinquished it under the Treaty of Westminster (1674) that ended the Third Anglo-Dutch War .
In the 1763 Treaty of Paris, France formally ceded to Britain the eastern part of its vast North American empire, having secretly given to Spain the territory of Louisiana west of the Mississippi River the previous year. Before the war, Britain held the thirteen American colonies, most of present-day Nova Scotia, and most of the Hudson Bay ...
When war with France followed the French Revolution, a Royal Naval Dockyard was established at Bermuda in 1795, which was to alternate with Royal Naval Dockyard, Halifax (Bermuda during the summers and Halifax during the winters) as the Royal Navy headquarters and main base for the River St. Lawrence and Coast of America Station (which was to ...