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In addition, between 90% [3] and 93% [4] of people in the Netherlands claim to speak English, although a negligible percentage of British people can speak Dutch. The Netherlands has an embassy in London, [5] and the United Kingdom has an embassy in The Hague. [1] The UK also has a consulate in Willemstad, Curaçao. [6]
Netherlands–United Kingdom military relations (1 C, 10 P) Netherlands–United Kingdom sports relations (3 C, 1 P) British expatriates in the Netherlands (9 C, 20 P)
Images of England was a stand-alone project funded jointly by English Heritage and the Heritage Lottery Fund.The aim of the project was to photograph every listed building and object (some 370,000) in England and to make the images available online to create, what was at the time, one of the largest free-to-view picture libraries of buildings in the world.
England is the origin of the English language, ... and Hull to the Netherlands and Belgium. [167] ... directors and motion pictures of all time, ...
Though remaining allies, England (and after 1707, Great Britain) quickly surpassed the Dutch in military and economic power. From roughly 1720 onwards, Dutch economic growth experienced a significant decline, and in 1780, the per capita gross national income of Britain surpassed their Dutch counterparts, leading to rising levels of resentment ...
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The Netherlands has one of the oldest standing armies in Europe; it was first established in the late 1500s. After the defeat of Napoleon, the Dutch army was transformed into a conscription army. The Netherlands abandoned its neutrality in 1948 when it signed the Treaty of Brussels, and became a founding member of NATO in 1949.