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  2. List of wars involving the Netherlands - Wikipedia

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    Dutch withdrawal in 2009, conflict ended in 2011; Operation Ocean Shield (2009–15 December 2016) [11] Operation Atalanta (2009–present) EU NATO Netherlands: Somali Pirates: Victory. NATO and EU operations being conducted. Action of 5 April 2010; Task Force Barracuda: sabotage of 5 Somali piracy mother ships; Libyan Civil War (2011) Anti ...

  3. Three Hundred and Thirty Five Years' War - Wikipedia

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    The Netherlands had been assisted by the English under a number of rulers in the Eighty Years' War (1568–1648), starting with Queen Elizabeth I. The Treaty of Münster (30 January 1648) had confirmed Dutch independence from Spain. The Netherlands sought to maintain their alliance with England and had chosen to ally with the Parliamentarians ...

  4. Peace of Münster - Wikipedia

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    Dutch merchants would also benefit from the foreign upheavals of the English Civil War and gain on English trade in their American colonies. [2] While Spain did not recognise the Dutch Republic, it agreed that the Lords States General of the United Netherlands was 'sovereign' and could participate in the peace talks.

  5. Peace of Westphalia - Wikipedia

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    Europe had been battered by both the Thirty Years' War and the overlapping Eighty Years' War (begun c. 1568), exacting a heavy toll in money and lives. The Eighty Years' War was a prolonged struggle for the independence of the Protestant-majority Dutch Republic (the modern Netherlands), supported by Protestant-majority England, against Catholic-dominated Spain and Portugal.

  6. History of the Netherlands - Wikipedia

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    The first fifty years (1568 through 1618) were a war solely between Catholic Spain and the Protestant rebels of the Netherlands. It was a military conflict with integral religious elements. During the last thirty years (1618–1648) the conflict between Spain and the Netherlands was submerged in the general European War that became known as the ...

  7. United Kingdom of the Netherlands - Wikipedia

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    Before the French Revolutionary Wars (1792–1802), the Low Countries was a patchwork of different polities created by the Eighty Years' War (1568–1648). The Dutch Republic in the north was independent; the Southern Netherlands was split between the Austrian Netherlands and the Prince-Bishopric of Liège [2] - the former being part of Habsburg monarchy, while both were part of the Holy Roman ...

  8. History of the Netherlands (1900–present) - Wikipedia

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    World War II marked a devastating period for the Netherlands, which suffered under German occupation from 1940 until liberation in 1945. The war's impact was severe, with the Rotterdam Blitz causing extensive destruction and loss of life. Dutch resistance was significant, though the nation also faced collaboration from within.

  9. Netherlands - Wikipedia

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    In the east of the Netherlands, remains are found of the last ice age, which ended approximately ten thousand years ago. As the continental ice sheet moved in from the north, it pushed moraine forward. The ice sheet halted as it covered the eastern half of the Netherlands. After the ice age ended, the moraine remained in the form of a long hill ...