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Definition: Anglo-Dutch Wars from Britannica Concise Encyclopedia

Four naval conflicts between England and the Dutch Republic in the 17th–18th century. The First (1652–54), Second (1665–67), and Third (1672–74) Anglo-Dutch Wars all arose from commercial rivalry between the two nations, and victories by England established its naval might. The two countries had been allied for a century when the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War (1780–84) broke out over Dutch interference in the American Revolution. By 1784 the Dutch Republic had declined dramatically in power and prestige.

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From The Columbia Encyclopedia
series of conflicts between the English and Dutch during the mid to late 17th cent. The wars had their roots in the Anglo-Dutch commercial rivalry, although the last of the three wars was a wider conflict in which French interests played a primary role. The 1652–54 war between the English and the Dutch marked a crisis in the long-standing rivalry between the two nations as leaders in world trade. The crisis was precipitated by English search and seizure of Dutch merchant ships in the course of an unofficial Anglo-Dutch maritime war and, secondarily, by the English Navigation Act of 1651, which was directed against Dutch trade with British possessions. Hostilities were opened (May, 1652) by a sea fight between the British and Dutch admirals, Robert Blake and Maarten Tromp . At the beginning of the war Blake broke up the Dutch herring fleet, while George Ayscue successfully waylaid Dutch ships in the English Channel. However, the victory of Tromp over Blake off Dungeness (Nov., 1652) …
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Full text Article Anglo-Dutch Wars

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A series of three wars based on commercial rivialry. By the mid-seventeenth century, the overseas naval and expanding trade interests of England and the Dutch Republic in the Americas, Africa, and East Asia were on a collision course, exacerbated by the passage of the Navigation Acts by the…
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Full text Article Dutch Wars

From The Columbia Encyclopedia
series of conflicts between the English and Dutch during the mid to late 17th cent. The wars had their roots in the Anglo-Dutch commercial rivalry, although the last of the three wars was a wider conflict in which French interests played a primary role. The 1652–54 war between the English and the…
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Full text Article Anglo-Dutch wars.

From The Oxford Companion to British History
Three wars, 1652–4, 1665–7, 1672–4, provide a unique element of continuity between the Commonwealth and the restored monarchy. All were intended to redress the commercial imbalance between England and the Dutch Republic. In the first war security was also an objective. The Dutch rejected a union…
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Full text Article Cape Colony: Khoi-Dutch Wars

From Encyclopedia of African History
The Dutch East India Company settlement at the Cape was established on land which had been occupied by Khoikhoi herders and pastoralists for well over a thousand years. They, in turn, had been preceded by San hunter-gatherers, many of whom had retreated to remoter mountainous sites by the…
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Full text Article Episode from the Dutch Wars (oil on panel)

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Episode from the Dutch Wars (oil on panel)
Artist: Hoecke, Robert van den (1622-68) (attr. to) Location: Musee des Beaux-Arts, Dunkirk, France Credit: Episode from the Dutch Wars (oil on panel), Hoecke, Robert van den (1622-68) (attr. to) / Musee des Beaux-Arts, Dunkirk, France / Giraudon / The Bridgeman Art Library Dimensions: 58x87 Date: …
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Full text Article Anglo-Dutch Wars

From Chambers Dictionary of World History
Four naval wars fought between the Dutch Republic and England caused mainly by commercial and colonial rivalry between the two great sea powers. The first three, in the second half of the 17c, did not result in the supremacy of either nation; the fourth (1780–4), shortly before the French…
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Full text Article Khoi-Dutch Wars

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Sea Battle of the Anglo-Dutch Wars, c.1700 (oil on canvas)
Artist: Velde, Willem van de, the Younger (1633-1707) Location: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, USA Credit: Sea Battle of the Anglo-Dutch Wars, c.1700 (oil on canvas), Velde, Willem van de, the Younger (1633-1707) / Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, USA / The…
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