Third Anglo-Dutch War

Examples of Third Anglo-Dutch War in the following topics:

• Freedom in New Netherland

  • The Dutch colony of New Netherland changed hands several times and eventually ceded, transferring permanently to Britain in 1674.
  • The surrender of Fort Amsterdam to England in 1664 was formalized in 1667, contributing to the Second Anglo-Dutch War.
  • Within six years the two empires were once again at war, and the Dutch recaptured New Netherland with a fleet of 21 ships, then the largest ever seen in North America.
  • In 1673, the Dutch re-took the area but the next year, finding itself financially bankrupt, the republic relinquished New Netherland under the Second Treaty of Westminster in November, 1674, ending the Third Anglo-Dutch War.
  • Analyze the Anglo-Dutch wars and the transfer of New Amsterdam to the British

• Troubled Neighbors

  • The Anglo-Dutch Wars, which took place between 1652 and 1784, were fought for control over trade routes in the colonies.
  • The Anglo–Dutch Wars, also known as the Dutch Trade Wars, were fought in the 17th and 18th centuries for control over the seas and trade routes.
  • The second and third Anglo-Dutch wars confirmed the Dutch Republic's position as the leading maritime state of the 17th century.
  • During the second war, English spoils won in battle included the Dutch colony of New Netherland (present-day New York).
  • After the Third Anglo-Dutch War ended and the two sides made peace, they agreed to return it to the English.

• From New Netherland to New York

  • Over the next few decades, wars with the American Indians erupted, as well as conflicts with the English.
  • During the Anglo-Dutch wars of the 1650s and 1660s, the two powers attempted to gain commercial advantages in the Atlantic World.
  • During the Second Anglo-Dutch War (1664–1667), English forces gained control of the Dutch fur trading colony of New Netherland, and in 1664, Charles II gave this colony (including present-day New Jersey) to his brother James, Duke of York (later James II).
  • The Dutch in New York chafed under English rule.
  • In 1673, during the Third Anglo-Dutch War (1672–1674), the Dutch recaptured the colony; however, at the end of the conflict, the English had regained control.

• The Dutch Empire

  • Dutch explorers originally reached America searching for the Indies, but quickly settled territories and named them New Netherland.
  • The loss of New Netherland led to the Second Anglo–Dutch War (1665–1667).
  • The Dutch government ruled Suriname until 1975.
  • Peter Stuyvesant (c.1612 – August 1672), served as the last Dutch Director-General of the colony of New Netherland.
  • New Amsterdam was a 17th-century Dutch colonial settlement that served as the capital of New Netherland.

• Empires in Conflict

  • The British and the Dutch vied over the colony of New Netherland, the British and the Spanish fought the War of Jenkins' Ear, and the British and the French fought in a series of wars that concluded in 1763 with the French and Indian War.
  • The Anglo-Dutch Wars (1652-1674) were a series of conflicts fought largely at sea over Britain's power to restrict trade to the colonies.
  • The war was largely subsumed by the War of the Austrian Succession in 1742.
  • King William's War (1689–97), also known as the Nine Years War and the War of the League of Augsburg, was a phase of the larger Anglo-French conflict for colonial domination throughout the world.
  • This painting by Pieter Cornelisz van Soest (c. 1667) depicts a major battle (and Dutch victory) during the Second Anglo–Dutch War.

• Enforcing the Navigation Acts

  • The major impetuses for the Navigation Acts were the ruinous deterioration of English trade in the aftermath of the Seven Years' War and the opening of trade between the Spanish Empire and the Dutch Republic.
  • Even the trade with English colonies was dominated by Dutch merchants, who crowded out English direct trade with a sudden influx of commodities from the Levant, the Mediterranean, the Spanish and Portuguese empires, and the West Indies, carried in Dutch ships and ultimately increasing Dutch profit.
  • In some instances, British colonists and foreign merchants subverted the Act; for example, in the West Indies, the Dutch kept up a flourishing "smuggling" trade due to the preference of English planters for Dutch goods and the better deal the Dutch offered in the sugar trade.
  • After the second Anglo-Dutch War (1665–1667), which ended disastrously for England, the Dutch were permitted to ship commodities produced in the German hinterland to England as if these were Dutch goods.
  • Even more importantly, England conceded to the principle of "free ship, free good" which provided freedom for Dutch ships from molestation by the British Royal Navy on the high seas, even in wars in which the Dutch Republic was neutral.

• The Anglo-Saxons

  • The Anglo-Saxons were a people who inhabited Great Britain from the 5th century.
  • The history of the Anglo-Saxons is the history of a cultural identity.
  • This was the society that would see three invasions in the 11th century, the third of which was led successfully by William of Normandy in 1066 and transferred political rule to the Normans.
  • The subject of war and the Anglo-Saxons is a curiously neglected one; however, it is an important element of their society.
  • The third aspect of Alfred's society is working men.

• Louis XIV's Wars

  • Three major wars, the Franco-Dutch War, the Nine Years' War, and the War of the Spanish Succession, as well as two lesser conflicts, the War of Devolution and the War of the Reunions, enabled France to become the most powerful state in Europe.
  • The most important consequence of the war, however, was the changed attitude of Louis XIV towards the Dutch Republic.
  • The Franco-Dutch War (1672–78), called also the Dutch War, was a war that pitted France, Sweden, Münster, Cologne, and England against the Dutch Republic, which was later joined by the Austrian Habsburg lands, Brandenburg-Prussia, and Spain to form a Quadruple Alliance.
  • The Nine Years' War (1688–97), often called the War of the Grand Alliance or the War of the League of Augsburg, once again pitted Louis XIV against a European-wide coalition, the Grand Alliance, led by the Anglo-Dutch King William III, Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I, King Charles II of Spain, Victor Amadeus II of Savoy, and several princes of the Holy Roman Empire.
  • During Louis's reign, France was the leading European power and it fought three major wars: the Franco-Dutch War, the War of the League of Augsburg, and the War of the Spanish Succession.

• England and the High Seas

  • The introduction of Navigation Acts led to war with the Dutch Republic.
  • In the early stages of this First Anglo-Dutch War (1652–1654), the superiority of the large, heavily armed English ships was offset by superior Dutch tactical organisation.
  • This was the first war fought largely, on the English side, by purpose-built, state-owned warships.
  • With the surrender of Fort Amsterdam in 1664, England gained control of the Dutch colony of New Netherland, renaming it New York.
  • Until the abolition of the slave trade in 1807, Britain was responsible for the transportation of 3.5 million African slaves to the Americas, a third of all slaves transported across the Atlantic.

• The English Protectorate

  • During the period, fighting continued, particularly in Ireland and Scotland, between the parliamentary forces and those opposed to them, as part of what is now referred to as the Third English Civil War.
  • The first was "healing and settling" the nation after the chaos of the civil wars and the regicide. 
  • The First Anglo-Dutch War, which had broken out in 1652, against the Dutch Republic, was eventually won in 1654.
  • Having negotiated peace with the Dutch, Cromwell proceeded to engage the Spanish in warfare.
  • By May 1652, Cromwell's Parliamentarian army had defeated the Confederate and Royalist coalition in Ireland and occupied the country—bringing to an end the Irish Confederate Wars (or Eleven Years' War).