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 Second Anglo-Dutch War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Second Anglo-Dutch War was fought between England and the United Provinces from 1665 to 1667.
During the second war they greatly extended their navy by ordering eighty new warships from 1664 onward.
The vilification of the Dutch traders was at least partially an expression of unease with the presence of notable Cromwellian politicians and officers in Holland in exile.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Second_Anglo-Dutch_War   (1560 words)

  
 Anglo-Dutch Wars - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In a period of growing mercantilism this was the spark that ignited the first Anglo-Dutch war, the British seeking a pretext to start a war which led to sporadic naval engagements across the globe.
Believing that the war was all but over, the English divided their forces and in 1653 were routed by the fleet of Dutch Admiral Maarten Tromp at the Battle of Dungeness in the English Channel.
The war ended on 1654-04-05 with the signing of the Treaty of Westminster, but the commercial rivalry was not resolved, the British having failed to replace the Dutch as the world's dominant trade nation.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Anglo-Dutch_War   (1245 words)

  
 The Anglo-Dutch Wars
The second Anglo-Dutch War began in 1665, and lasted until 1667.
It was fought between the "Stadtholderless Dutch Republic" and "the Commonwealth of England." England gained control of the seas for the summer of 1653.
One of the reasons that the Dutch managed to regain control of the waters was that in 1667, the plague broke out in England, greatly weakening the country.
www.geocities.com /Athens/Academy/9601/HollandAngDut.html   (572 words)

  
 DUTCH COLONIAL EMPIRE : Encyclopedia Entry
With Dutch naval power rising rapidly as a major force from the late 16th century, the Netherlands reigned supreme at sea, and dominated global commerce, during the second half of the 17th century.
Only after 1815, when the British returned the colonies to the Dutch after occupation during the Napoleonic War, did the kingdom (and from 1848 onwards, the parliament) take charge of the administration of the colonies.
Since 1580 the Portuguese had been allied to the Spanish under a united monarchy, and the Spanish in turn were embroiled in a fierce war against the Dutch, who had rebelled against their overlords.
bibleocean.com /OmniDefinition/Dutch_colonial_empire   (1519 words)

  
 Anglo-Dutch Wars - Rijksmuseum
Economic disruption and political crisis were all that the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War achieved for the Republic
While the Dutch fleet gained several convincing victories in the first three wars, in which, for example, Michiel de Ruyter established his name.
In the final war the Dutch were no longer a match for Britain's Royal Navy.
www.rijksmuseum.nl /aria/aria_encyclopedia/00047471?lang=en   (129 words)

  
 Second Anglo-Dutch War, 1665-1667
War was declared in May 1665 after the Dutch recaptured their West African bases and an attack by Michael de Ruyter on Barbaros.
Prince James failed to pursue the defeated Dutch and was replaced in command by Earl Edward Montague of Sandwich, who in August chased a Dutch convoy into Bergen harbour (Denmark), from where he was repulsed by the Danish shore batteries.
In January 1666 France entered the war on the side of the Dutch, honouring a treaty with the Dutch.
www.historyofwar.org /articles/wars_anglodutch2.html   (384 words)

  
 16002
Captain Crimson - first and second Anglo-Dutch War
Six Dutch warships entered the bay the next day, and flying british colors, were hailed by the unsuspecting eight ships of the Maryland flotilla before they could be warned by the Virginian.
In 1665, England decided she wanted a larger share of the Dutch trade, and therefore the colonies found themselves again victims of English war with the States-General of Holland, thanks to the British Navigation Act of 1651.
www.rumskulls.org /16002.html   (2142 words)

  
 CHRONOLOGY
Colonial disputes on the African Slave Coast and English seizure of Dutch possessions in the West Indies and North America (New Amsterdam) lead the way into the second Anglo-Dutch trade war.
The second Treaty of Westminster reflected the failure of the war at sea.
Despite their desperate situation, the Dutch were merely forced to give appropriate honours to person of Charles II and pay a £200,000 in compensation for the slight.
website.lineone.net /~d.bolton/Chron/chron.htm   (1192 words)

  
 anglodutchwarsblog.com
This is my first scenario for a large Second Anglo-Dutch War battle.
The Dutch fleet in the blockade of Danzig in 1656
In this case, the English had 30% left and the Dutch 2% (the Vogelstruis) by 8:45pm, in the dark.
anglodutchwarsblog.com   (1965 words)

  
 Michiel de Ruyter - TheBestLinks.com - De Ruijter, Africa, Amsterdam, April 29, ...
In the Second Anglo-Dutch War (1665–1667) his most famous battles were the Four Days Battle 1666 and the Raid on the Medway 1667.
A year before the Second Anglo-Dutch War started he fought the English at the African coast, near Guinea.
The Medway raid was a costly and embarrassing defeat for the English, bringing the Dutch close to London.
www.thebestlinks.com /De_Ruijter.html   (399 words)

  
 WHKMLA : The Third Anglo-Dutch War, 1672-1674
England, resenting the Dutch supremacy in international trade, implemented the NAVIGATION ACT in order to eliminate Dutch intermediary traders; the act was the main cause behind the First Anglo-Dutch War 1652-1654 and the Second Anglo-Dutch War 1665-1667.
Geschiedenis (History), from De Zeven Provincien; site on the history of a battleship which participated in the Anglo-Dutch Wars, in Dutch
Third Anglo-Dutch War 1672-1674, from Seapower 1652-1860, a detailed timeline
www.zum.de /whkmla/military/17cen/anglodutch3.html   (469 words)

  
 Site Map
The South American country of Surinam, formerly Dutch Guiana, including the nutmeg island of Run was ceded by England to the Dutch in exchange for New York in 1667 after the second Anglo-Dutch War.
1667 Jul 21, The Peace of Breda ended the Second Anglo-Dutch War and ceded Dutch New Amsterdam to the English.
1863 Jul 1, The Dutch abolished slavery in Suriname.
www.bonus.com /contour/timelines_history/http@@/timelines.ws/countries/SURINAME.HTML   (325 words)

  
 The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783
In the second war there was no naval battle of importance,—a circumstance which in itself, and still more in connection with other well-ascertained facts, indicates a superiority analogous to that which at other epochs has been marked by the same feature.
The Dutch, in 1648, as a condition of peace after a successful war, exacted that the Scheldt should be closed to sea commerce.
It was one of the conditions of peace yielded by the Dutch after their disastrous war of 1654.
www.blackmask.com /thatway/books164c/insea.htm   (17278 words)

  
 Dutch Colonization
Less about slaves or ivory, the Anglo-Dutch Wars were actually more about who would be the dominant European naval power.
By 1664, both the Dutch and English were preparing for war, and King Charles of England granted his brother, James, Duke of York, vast American territories that included all of New Netherland.
These stone houses are fine examples of 17th-century Dutch stone buildings, and 21 still stand within the original layout of the stockade, listed in the National Register of Historic Places as contributing members of the Stockade Historic District.
www.cr.nps.gov /nr/travel/kingston/colonization.htm   (1417 words)

  
 1650 to 1675
During the course of the war the British captured the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam and renamed it New York.
It is known as the Battle of Lowestoft and occurred after the capture of an Anglo-Hamburg convoy by the Dutch.
The British and Dutch flagships engaged directly with each other, and although the battle initially favored the Dutch, the Dutch flagship suddenly blew up and victory was with the British.
www.multied.com /dates/1650ad.html   (1052 words)

  
 New Netherland Project Historical Calendar
Treaty of Breda, ending the Second Anglo-Dutch War.
Formal declaration of war with England, usually called the First Anglo-Dutch War.
The beheading of Johan van Oldenbamevelt, leader of the anti-war party, at The Hague; this victory of the counter-remonstrants led to continuation of war with Spain and the formation of theWIC.
www.nnp.org /project/historical.html   (827 words)

  
 Francia Media:  Lorraine & Burgundy
Dutch rule was often harsh, and as late as 1908 the famous island of Bali was subjugated admit scenes of slaughter.
Eventually, however, Spanish power was broken, and the Wars of Louis XIV targeted all the lands to the east of France.
The Dutch Royal House continues to be regarded as the House of Orange despite the failure of the male line in no less than three successive generations.
www.friesian.com /lorraine.htm   (11703 words)

  
 History of Nova Scotia, Part 1, Ch. 10. Acadia (1654-1684).
Temple, The Second Anglo-Dutch War & Marquis de Tracy:
Beaubassin earned his reputation in 1676, when he and his brother-in-law, the son of Nicholas Denys, Sieur Richard Denys as second in command, in their French war vessel, seized three English ketches from Boston that were taking on coal at Cape Breton.
Tracy and his troops, veterans of the Turkish wars, travelled into the Mohawk territory and "the savages fled before this great European engine of war, leaving to Tracy their wooden villages, their stores of food and the crops standing in the fields.
www.blupete.com /Hist/NovaScotiaBk1/Part1/Ch10.htm   (1843 words)

  
 Anglo Dutch 1:1200
Written to cover the period of the Second Anglo Dutch War, with appended information for use in the First and Third Anglo Dutch Wars.
The Anglo Dutch wars were a series of three vicious naval wars fought between Britain and Holland during the latter part of the 17th century.
Initial battles were commanded by Generals at sea but by the end of the period, the term 'Admiral' and the division of Vice, Rear and Full Admirals of the Red, White and Blue were in full use.
www.rodlangton.com /anglodutch/anglodutch.htm   (413 words)

  
 Michiel de Ruyter, Dutch Admiral - Timeline Index
During the Second Anglo-Dutch War (1664-1667) he defeated the English in the Four Days' Battle fought near Dunkerque, France, in 1666.
Cornelis Tromp was a Commander in chief of the Dutch navy.
Maarten Harpertszoon Tromp was an officer and later admiral in the Dutch navy.
www.timelineindex.com /content/view/967   (263 words)

  
 2.7 The Anglo-Dutch Wars
The Commons were against this and they refused him supplies unless Charles withdrew English support from the Franco-Dutch war (1672-74).
This made the Dutch sign the Breda Treaty (1667) according to which each country was allowed to keep with them their territorial gains.
Prince William of Orange, a close relation of Charles II was not allowed to become the ruler of Holland by the Dutch.
www.pinkmonkey.com /studyguides/subjects/euro_his/chap2/e0202701.htm   (607 words)

  
 The Dutch in the Medway
The dates added to the title of the poem are peculiar, stretching as they do from just prior to the formal outbreak of the second Anglo-Dutch war in March 1665 to the start of the third war in 1672.
The first (1652-4) was during Cromwell's Protectorate, under which Britain was ruled for a time after the victory of Parliament in the Civil War; the second (1665-67) and third (1672-74) during the reign of Charles II.
It is not difficult to imagine ‘The Dutch in the Medway’ being sung heartily, and movingly, by a congregation.
www.kipling.org.uk /kiplingsociety/rg_dutchmedway1.htm   (500 words)

  
 MockQuiz3.doc
First Anglo-Dutch War/English Second Anglo-Dutch War/English Portuguese/ Second Anglo-Dutch War Third Anglo-Dutch War/Dutch War Both b and d are correct Massachusetts Bay Colony banished ______________ and _____________ from the colony because they failed to accept the religious doctrines of the leaders.
The Dutch of New Netherland waged genocidal wars against the Indians of the lower Hudson Valley (Mohigan and other Alogonkin tribes), but never waged a war with the powerful Iroquois of the upper Hudson Valley.
The Dutch West India Company commissioned the English explorer, Henry Hudson, to establish a colony in North America.
www.csubak.edu /~orink/MockQuiz3.doc   (275 words)

  
 Bacon's Rebellion
In 1664, during the Second Anglo-Dutch War, England forced the Dutch to cede New Amsterdam (which was renamed New York).
In 1667, Dutch raiders burned six tobacco ships in the James River and, in 1673 during the Third Anglo-Dutch war, Virginia was threated with a Dutch invasion.
The barriers to Dutch trade triggered three separate Anglo-Dutch wars, in which the Dutch expanded their foothold in North America and then lost it.
www.virginiaplaces.org /military/bacon.html   (856 words)

  
 Treaty of Breda --  Encyclopædia Britannica
The Dutch had the military advantage during the war (fought mostly at sea) but were compelled to make peace quickly to deal with Louis XIV's invasion of the Spanish...
The Dutch had the military advantage during the war (fought mostly at sea) but were compelled to make peace quickly to deal with Louis XIV's invasion of the Spanish Netherlands in the…
The Treaty of Breda awarded the territory to France in 1667, and the Dutch, who had occupied Cayenne in 1664, were expelled in 1676.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-9016325   (837 words)

  
 New Page 1
ritish capture of New Amsterdam and New Netherland in peacetime was one of the sparks that ignited the second Anglo-Dutch war.
The second Anglo-Dutch war ended with the Peace of Breda in July 1667.
After the disastrous (in the eyes of the British) end of the second Anglo-Dutch war, the merchant community (whose warehouses had been destroyed) could not nearly provide sufficient tax support to the British crown.
www.newnetherland.org /history.html   (3606 words)

  
 Monmouth - Metaweb
At the outbreak of the Third Anglo-Dutch War in 1672, a brigade of 6,000 British troops was sent to serve as part of the French army (in return for money paid to King Charles), with Monmouth as its commander.
Later in the war, he returned to England to assume his first military command as commander of a troop of cavalry.
On July 6, 1685 the two armies met at the Battle of Sedgemoor, the second last to be fought on English soil.
www.metaweb.com /wiki/wiki.phtml?title=Monmouth&printable=yes   (626 words)

  
 Battle For the Islands
This initial division of the island held back it's development and sugar production because the wars between the French and British.
1783 - The Treaty of Paris ends the American War of Independence.
This division of the island remained until 1713 when the English (then termed British after the union with Scotland) were given territorial rights to the whole island under the Treaty of Utrect.
website.lineone.net /~stkittsnevis/battle.htm   (653 words)

  
 Decades History Search
The Peace of Breda ended the Second Anglo-Dutch War (1664-67) and saw the Dutch cede New Amsterdam [on Manhattan Island] to the English in exchange for the nutmeg island of Run.
The Peace of Breda ended the Second Anglo-Dutch War and ceded Dutch New Amsterdam to the English.
The War of Devolution was fought between France and Spain as a result of the claim by Louis XIV of France that the ownership of the Spanish Netherlands devolved to his wife, Marie Therese, upon the death of her father, Philip IV of Spain.
www.decades.com /ByDecade/1660-1669/3.htm?tlvw=2   (803 words)

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