Also determined to fight a major engagement, the Duke of Marlborough, commander-in-chief of Anglo-Dutch forces, assembled his army – some 62, 000 men – near Maastricht, and marched past Zoutleeuw.

The Prussians were defeated at Ligny ( south of Mont-Saint-Jean and the village of Waterloo ) by an army led personally by Napoleon, but Napoleon's failure to destroy the Prussian forces led to his defeat a few days later at the Battle of Waterloo, when the Prussian forces unexpectedly arrived on his right flank late in the afternoon to support the Anglo-Dutch forces pressing his front.

* June 7 – Third Anglo-Dutch War: Battle of Solebay, an indecisive sea battle between the Dutch Republic and the joined forces of England and France.

As commander of Anglo-Dutch forces he had the power to give orders to Dutch generals only when their troops were in action with his own ; at all other times he had to rely on his powers of tact and persuasion, and gain the consent of accompanying Dutch field deputies or political representatives of the States-General.

During the Second Anglo-Dutch War, on August 27, 1664, New Amsterdam surrendered to English forces.

It brought a hasty and inconclusive end to the Second Anglo-Dutch War ( 1665 – 1667 ), as Louis XIV's forces began invading the Spanish Netherlands as part of the War of Devolution, but left many territorial disputes unresolved.

The Second Anglo-Dutch War was precipitated in 1664, when English forces moved to capture New Netherland.

The first suggests that the bay is named after a group of around 350 Catalan ( from Catalonia ) military men believed to have settled here after having assisted the Anglo-Dutch forces who won the Capture of Gibraltar during the War of Spanish Succession on 4 August 1704.

Notably an early use was in 1667, during the Dutch Raid on the Medway and their attempts to do likewise in the Thames during the Second Anglo-Dutch War, when a number of warships and merchant ships commandeered by the Royal Navy were sunk in those rivers to attempt to stop the attacking forces.

In August 1945, the Japanese garrison on the island surrendered to the Anglo-Dutch forces.

On 27 February 1781, British forces occupied Berbice and neighbouring Demerara and Essequibo as part of the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War, but in January 1782, the colonies were recaptured by the French, who were allied with the Dutch, and who subsequently restored the colonies to Dutch rule with the Treaty of Paris of 1783.

While in the Netherlands, Blood is said to have gained the favour of Admiral Ruyter ( an opponent of England during the Anglo-Dutch Wars ), and was implicated in the Scottish Covenanters Pentland Rising of 1666.

Spain's defeat by the combined alliance of France, Britain, the Netherlands and Austria in the War of the Quadruple Alliance ( 1718 – 1720 ) confirmed the decline from her former dominance, whilst the successful deployment of the Britain's Royal Navy into the Mediterranean, by exploiting the fortress of Gibraltar, gained in 1704 by an Anglo-Dutch force during the war of succession, would create considerable difficulties in the following years.

He arranged the interview at Dover between Charles and his sister Henrietta of Orléans, gained the king's personal favor by finding a mistress for him, Louise de Kéroualle, maid of honour to Madame, and persuaded him to declare the Third Anglo-Dutch War against the Dutch Republic.

The Nine Years ' War ( 1688 – 97 ) – often called the War of the Grand Alliance, the War of the Palatine Succession, or the War of the League of Augsburg – was a major war of the late 17th century fought between King Louis XIV of France, and a European-wide coalition, the Grand Alliance, led by the Anglo-Dutch Stadtholder-King William III, Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I, King Charles II of Spain, Victor Amadeus II of Savoy, and the major and minor princes of the Holy Roman Empire.

* First Anglo-Dutch War and Admiral Robert Blake for the role played by sea power during this period

It lasts for five days and results in a decisive victory by the Dutch over the English in the Second Anglo-Dutch War.

The Anglo-Dutch Wars were fought between the English and the Dutch for control over the seas and trade routes.

In particular it is an invaluable source for the study of the Second Anglo-Dutch War of 1665 – 7, of the Great Plague of 1665, and of the Great Fire of London in 1666.

< i > The Isle of Amboina </ i > In 1604, a second English East India Company voyage commanded by Sir Henry Middleton reached the islands of Ternate, Tidore, Ambon and Banda ; in Banda, they encountered severe VOC hostility, which saw the beginning of Anglo-Dutch competition for access to spices.

The current Dutchess County Court House | county courthouse, built in 1903, stands on the same site as the original 1720 building. Fun at the Dutchess County FairPrior to Anglo-Dutch settlement, what is today Dutchess County was a leading center for the native Wappinger peoples.

In his absence, William Stanley and Rowland York, two Catholic officers whom Leicester had placed in command of Deventer and the fort of Zutphen, respectively, went over to Parma, along with their key fortresses — a disaster for the Anglo-Dutch coalition in every respect.

Due to the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War that went disastrously for the Dutch, the Patriot party staged a revolt against the authoritarian regime of stadtholder William V that was struck down through the intervention of William's brother-in-law Frederick William II of Prussia in June 1787.

The First Anglo-Dutch War was the first war to be fought entirely at sea, with no operations aiming at landing or supporting troops on shore, although the Dutch made plans for a raid on the Medway.

The Anglo-Dutch Wars () were a series of wars fought between the English ( later British ) and the Dutch in the 17th and 18th centuries for control over the seas and trade routes.

The Second Anglo-Dutch War was part of a series of four Anglo-Dutch Wars fought between the English ( later British ) and the Dutch in the 17th and 18th centuries for control over the seas and trade routes.

The First Anglo-Dutch War was concluded with an English victory in the Battle of Scheveningen in August 1653, although a peace treaty was not signed for another eight months.

1655 English print depicting the Amboyna massacre of 1623, which was deployed by the English party that favoured war with the Dutch for propaganda purposes in the years leading up to the Second Anglo-Dutch War.

The English East India Company published an extensive pamphlet in 1631, setting out its case against the Dutch VOC, and this was used for anti-Dutch propaganda during the First Anglo-Dutch War.

De Ruyter is most famous for his role in the Anglo-Dutch Wars of the 17th century.

De Ruyter saved the situation for the Netherlands in the Third Anglo-Dutch War.

In 1815, he left again for England after the island of Java was returned to control of the Netherlands following the Napoleonic Wars, under the terms of the Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1814, but not before he was officially replaced by John Fendall on account of the poor financial performance of the colony during his administration, as deemed by the successors of Lord Minto in Calcutta.

Despite the best efforts in London by authorities such as the Viscount Castlereagh to quell Dutch fears and the continuing efforts to reach an agreement between the nations that eventually became the Anglo-Dutch Treaty of London of 1824, as well as to send instructions to Raffles to undertake far less intrusive actions, the distance between the Far East and Europe had meant that the orders had no chance of reaching Raffles in time for his venture to begin.

Following the Duke of Marlborough's highly successful campaigns of 1706, he and George Stepney became the first English regents of the Anglo-Dutch condominium for governing the southern Netherlands.

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.

In 1678 Monmouth was commander of the Anglo-Dutch brigade, now fighting for the United Provinces against the French and he distinguished himself at the Battle of St Denis in August 1678 during the Franco-Dutch War, further increasing his reputation.

After the Second Anglo-Dutch War, which ended disastrously for England, the Dutch obtained the right to ship commodities produced in their German hinterland to England as if these were Dutch goods.

The Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1824, designed to solve many of the issues that had arisen due to the British occupation of Dutch properties during the Napoleonic Wars, as well as issues regarding the rights to trade that existed for hundreds of years in the Spice Islands between the two nations, was a treaty that addressed a wide array of issues and did not clearly describe the limitations of expansion by either side in the Malay world.

* 1704 1 August ( NS ): ( 21 July ( OS )) – During the War of the Spanish Succession, and when returning from a failed expedition to Barcelona, an Anglo-Dutch fleet, under the command of Sir George Rooke, chief commander of the Alliance Navy, began a new siege ( the eleventh siege of the town ).

The Act is often mentioned as a major cause of the First Anglo-Dutch War, though it was only part of a larger British policy to engage in war after the negotiations had failed.

The Third Anglo-Dutch War failed to go off as originally planned.

Since the Navigation Acts had been one of the causes of the war, the treaty failed to resolve the dispute between the two countries and merely set the stage for the Second Anglo-Dutch War of 1665 – 1667.

In 1651 he went to The Hague as one of the envoys to negotiate a union between England and the Dutch Republic, a mission in which he entirely failed, leading to the First Anglo-Dutch War.

In the First Anglo-Dutch War against the Commonwealth of England, when Lieutenant-Admiral Maarten Tromp in the autumn of 1652 fell in disgrace with the States-General, De With commanded the Dutch fleet at the Battle of the Kentish Knock but failed in his mission.