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The 1652–1654 First Anglo-Dutch War was the result of commercial rivalry and Orangist support for the exiled Charles II, uncle of William of Orange. Peace terms agreed in 1654 with the English Protectorate included the permanent exclusion of the House of Orange-Nassau from public office, ensuring Republican political control.
The Anglo-Dutch wars of the seventeenth century (1996) online; the fullest military history. Kennedy, Paul M. The rise and fall of British naval mastery (1983) pp. 47–74. Konstam, Angus, and Tony Bryan. Warships of the Anglo-Dutch Wars 1652–74 (2011) excerpt and text search; Levy, Jack S., and Salvatore Ali.
6 September – First Anglo-Dutch War: Battle of Elba, a Dutch naval victory. 8 October – First Anglo-Dutch War: Battle of the Kentish Knock fought in the North Sea about 30 km from the mouth of the river Thames; the Dutch are forced to withdraw. 30 November – First Anglo-Dutch War: English under Blake defeated by Dutch under Tromp at the ...
1651–1986 Three Hundred and Thirty Five Years' War; 1652–1674 Anglo-Dutch Wars; 1653 Swiss peasant war of 1653; 1654 First Bremian War; 1654–1667 Russo-Polish War; 1654–1660 English-Spanish War – 15,000 killed in action [1] 1655–1660 Second Northern War; 1656 War of Villmergen; 1666 Second Bremian War; 1666–1671 Polish–Cossack ...
Articles related to the Third Anglo-Dutch War (1672-1674), a naval conflict between the Dutch Republic and England, in alliance with France.In the 1670 Secret Treaty of Dover, Charles II of England agreed to support an attack by Louis XIV of France on the Dutch Republic.
The English Parliament had passed the first of the Navigation Acts in October 1651, aimed at hampering the shipping of the highly trade-dependent Dutch. Agitation among the Dutch merchants had been further increased by George Ayscue's capture in early 1652 of 27 Dutch ships trading with the royalist colony of Barbados in contravention of an embargo.
The major foreign policy issue of his early reign was the Second Anglo-Dutch War. In 1670, he entered into the Treaty of Dover, an alliance with his cousin, King Louis XIV of France. Louis agreed to aid him in the Third Anglo-Dutch War and pay him a pension, and Charles secretly promised to convert to Catholicism at an
The Third Anglo-Dutch War came to an end with the signing of the Treaty of Westminster between the English and the Dutch in 1674. Fourteen years later the Glorious Revolution , which saw Stadtholder William III ascend the throne of England, put an end to the Anglo-Dutch conflicts of the 17th century.