Her strategy, to support the Dutch on the surface with an English army, while beginning secret peace talks with Spain within days of Leicester's arrival in Holland, had necessarily to be at odds with Leicester's, who wanted and was expected by the Dutch to fight an active campaign.

In view of the threat, the States of Gelderland wanted William to be appointed Captain-General of the Dutch States Army as soon as possible, despite his youth and inexperience.

Besides, as the Dutch tax system was heavily skewed toward highly regressive indirect taxes, which inordinately burdened the impoverished population, he wanted to change this to a system that depended more on direct ( income and wealth ) taxes.

Van Basten had also wanted to include Ivorian forward Salomon Kalou, but was thwarted when Kalou was denied Dutch citizenship by the immigration authorities headed by Rita Verdonk.

Janmaat wanted to represent the indigenous Dutch workers and middle class.

On the one hand the Netherlands wanted to use New Guinea as a Dutch sphere of influence in the region.

The first was that Napoleon wanted to reduce the value of French loans from Dutch investors by two-thirds, meaning a serious economic blow to the Netherlands.

Two decades after the College of New Jersey ( now Princeton University ) was established in 1746, ministers of the Dutch Reformed Church, seeking autonomy in ecclesiastical affairs in the American colonies, sought to establish a college to train those who wanted to become ministers within the church.

The queen wanted to be addressed as " Mevrouw " ( Dutch for " Mrs .") by her subjects.

The organizers wanted to avoid suspicion so that the Dutch would not ban the event.

Bastrop County is named for Felipe Enrique Neri, Baron de Bastrop ( he was actually a commoner named Philip Hendrik Nering Bogel wanted for embezzlement in his native country of the Netherlands ), an early Dutch settler who assisted Stephen F. Austin in obtaining land grants in Texas.

In 1998 Norman performed at Flevo backed by Beam, a young Dutch band, to a mixed reception as Norman's label wanted a new set of songs to be released on another live album, Shouting In The Storm, which sold poorly in Europe, and led to GMI dropping Norman from the label.

It wanted to create an independent Protestant society within the Dutch society, with its own schools, papers, hospitals etc.

It opposed changes to Dutch political system, it wanted to retain bicameralism, opposed popular referendums etc.

In the 1920s, however, the people of Belgium decided they wanted the name to be a corruption of the Dutch word " Shapocke " or " Scheperke ", meaning " little shepherd ", because they noticed resemblance to the Belgium Sheepdog ( Groenendael ).

The conflict had the potential to spark another international war since Wolfgang William wanted to have the still not demobilized army of Lorraine, which continued to operate in the region despite the Peace of Westphalia, to intervene on his side, and Frederick William sought support of the Dutch Republic.

However, his hopes of military support foundered as Philip III of Spain wanted to maintain the recent 1604 peace treaty with James I of England, the Spanish economy had gone bankrupt in 1596 and its European fleet had been destroyed some months earlier by the Dutch Republic at the Battle of Gibraltar.

The wound on his leg would not heal, and he traveled to Osaka to be treated by the Dutch doctor A F Bauduin, who wanted to amputate his leg.

For instance, the Flamenpolitik of the Germans, involving the administrative separation of the Dutch and the French-speaking parts of Belgium, was influenced by the Flemish Movement, which they wanted to use as an ally.

At first Carnegie simply wanted to donate the money directly to the Dutch Queen, Wilhelmina of the Netherlands for the building of the palace, but legal problems prohibited this, and in November 1903 the Carnegie Stichting was founded to manage the construction, ownership, and maintenance of the Palace.

Philip wanted this stopped, and Oldenbarnevelt seemed initially amenable to suggestions that the VOC be suppressed and another project to charter a similar Dutch company for the Americas be aborted.

During the referendum of 1960 which asked voters if they wanted to exit from the British Commonwealth and adopt a republic in South Africa, many Cape Dutch descendants voted not in favour while most Republican Boer descendants voted in favour.

These men had strict orders by Cornelis de Witt not to plunder, as the Dutch wanted to shame the English whose troops had sacked Terschelling during Holmes's Bonfire in August 1666.

But when I come there, to write to the Dutch States that I think it absolutely necessary for the saving of the Empire to march with the troops under my command and to join with those that are in Germany ... in order to make measures with Prince Lewis of Baden for the speedy reduction of the Elector of Bavaria.

The 1980 album Wait a Minute ... is a minor success, but the follow-up albums Modern Times Revive ( 1981 ) and Frisz & Sympatisz ( 1982 ) fail to make the Dutch album charts.

In order to control the price of meat and stock and make service more consistent, the Dutch established a permanent settlement at Table Bay in 1652.

In June 2006, two ministers from the Dutch government ( Sybilla Dekker and Piet Hein Donner ) proposed a plan to make squatting illegal.

* May 13 – The Eendracht, a VOC ship and the second recorded European ship to make landfall on Australian soil, is wrecked off the western coast of Ambon Island, Dutch East Indies.

Other companies, like the French East India Company and the Danish East India Company also started to make inroads on the Dutch system.

" I fail to see how this lot will make a positive contribution to the future of Dutch music ".

The 2001 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships were the first international competition to make use of the " vaulting table ", an apparatus made by Dutch gymnastics equipment company Janssen-Fritsen since the mid-1990s.

Three minutes before the end of extra time, Ove Kindvall scored Feijenoord's winning goal to make them the first Dutch team to claim a major European trophy.

The Dutch ambassador in France, Schimmelpenninck, who acted as the Dutch plenipotentiary, vainly protested that the Treaty of The Hague had guaranteed the Dutch colonies, and that France had promised not to make a separate peace.

It is also contracted to make a number of European supermarket own-brand Dutch lagers, including Albert Heijn Pilsener.

In this, Canaris was successful, and the " Dutch War Scare " played a major role in causing Chamberlain to make the " continental commitment " ( i. e. sending a large British ground force to the defence of France ) in February 1939.

As a result Cromwell managed to convince Parliament to make secret peace contacts with the Dutch.

Many naval officers welcomed the prospect of a conflict with the Dutch as they expected to make their name and fortune in battles they hoped to win as decisively as in the previous war.

Clarendon, always having warned about " this foolish war ", was ordered to quickly make peace with the Dutch without French mediation.

Clarendon explained to Charles that he had but two options: either to make very substantial concessions to Parliament or to begin peace talks with the Dutch under their conditions.

The whole situation deteriorated to such an extent that the Dutch Government was obliged to decide that no progress could be made before law and order were restored sufficiently to make intercourse between the different parts of Indonesia possible, and to guarantee the safety of people of different political opinions .< p style =" text-align: right ;">— former East Indies Governor H. J. van Mook's justification for the first Dutch " police action ".

The use of marl, a type of clay rich in calcium compounds, allowed the Dutch potters to refine their technique and to make finer items.

In January 1672, William, by then having figured out the intentions of Charles by himself, tried to exploit this by offering Charles to make the Dutch Republic a faithful ally of England.

Knowing that the mission was not allowed to make any concessions on the point of religion and the territorial integrity of the provinces themselves ( the southern fortress cities of Breda ,'s-Hertogenbosch and Maastricht were in the Generality Lands ) Louis demanded — besides twenty million guilders and an annual embassy from the States-General to Louis asking pardon for their perfidy — either religious freedom for the Catholics or lordship over Utrecht and Guelders, merely to humiliate the Dutch a bit further.

Among those who can lay claim to fame, and who have either been born or lived in Beckenham or have had some important contribution to make to the town, there are show business people such as Bob Monkhouse ( 1928 – 2003 ); Julie Andrews ( 1935-); David Bowie ( 1947-), who lived at 42 Southend Road, Beckenham from 1969 – 1973 ; Peter Frampton ( 1950-); Wende Snijders ( 1978-), the Dutch singer ; and the actors Maurice Denham ( 1909 – 2002 ), and Simon Ward ( 1941 – 2012 ).