Second Anglo-Dutch War

(noun)

Part of a series of four armed conflicts fought between England and the Netherlands in the 17th and 18th centuries for control over the seas and trade routes.

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Examples of Second 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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.
    • 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.
    • Queen Anne's War (1702–1713) was the second war for control of the continent, and was the counterpart of the War of the Spanish Succession in Europe.
    • This painting by Pieter Cornelisz van Soest (c. 1667) depicts a major battle (and Dutch victory) during the Second Anglo–Dutch War.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • European Wars in the Colonies

    • 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 (1689–1697), also known as the "Nine Years War" and the "War of the League of Augsburg," was a phase in the larger Anglo-French conflict for colonial domination throughout the world.
    • Queen Anne's War (1702–1713) was the second war for control of the continent and was the counterpart of the War of the Spanish Succession in Europe.

  • The Mercantalist System

    • The government had to fight smuggling—which became a favorite American technique in the 18th century to circumvent the restrictions against trading with the French, Spanish, or Dutch.
    • This image illustrates a battle fought at sea during the Anglo-Dutch Wars.
    • Control of trade routes was a primary factor leading up to the war, and England's mercantilist policies were a major factor that shaped this desire to control trade routes.

  • A Grinding War Against Iran

    • The Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran refers to the Allied invasion of Iran during World War II by Soviet and British armed forces.
    • The Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran refers to the Allied invasion of Iran during World War II by Soviet and British armed forces.
    • The British feared that the Abadan Oil Refinery, owned by the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, might fall into German hands.
    • The refinery produced eight million tons of oil in 1940—a crucial part of the Allied war effort.
    • The second of the notes was recognised by the prime minister Ali Mansur as a disguised ultimatum.

  • The Pequot War

    • The Pequot War was the first war between Native Americans and English settlers in northeastern America and foreshadowed European domination.
    • In 1631 the tribe was divided into pro-English and pro-Dutch factions.
    • Two sub-sachems—Sassacus, who was pro-Dutch, and Uncas, who was pro-English—fought to succeed as the grand sachem.
    • Uncas and his followers continued to quarrel with the pro-Dutch group.
    • The second event that weakened the Pequot was the smallpox epidemic which they suffered in 1633-34.