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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 First Anglo-Dutch War, or First Dutch War, [c] was a naval conflict between the Commonwealth of England and the Dutch Republic.Largely caused by disputes over trade, it began with English attacks on Dutch merchant shipping, but expanded to vast fleet actions.
First Anglo-Dutch War Commonwealth of England Dutch Republic: Victory. Treaty of Westminster. 1654 1660 Anglo-Spanish War (1654–1660) Commonwealth of England France (1657–59) Spain Royalists of the British Isles: Victory. Treaties of Madrid (1667 and 1670). Acquisition of Jamaica, the Cayman Islands, Dunkirk and Mardyck by the Commonwealth ...
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 Second Anglo-Dutch War, [b] began on 4 March 1665, and concluded with the signing of the Treaty of Breda on 31 July 1667. It was one in a series of naval wars between England and the Dutch Republic , driven largely by commercial disputes.
The Third Anglo-Dutch War [a], began on 27 March 1672, and concluded on 19 February 1674. A naval conflict between the Dutch Republic and England , in alliance with France , it is considered a related conflict of the wider 1672 to 1678 Franco-Dutch War .
The Raid on the Medway, during the Second Anglo-Dutch War in June 1667, was a successful attack conducted by the Dutch navy on English warships laid up in the fleet anchorages off Chatham Dockyard and Gillingham in the county of Kent.
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.