Fourth Anglo-Dutch War

The Fourth War Anglo-Dutch was held 1780 with 1784. It is about an armed conflict which was subjacent with the Guerre of independence of the United States of America, opposing the Great Britain to the United Provinces. The defeat of the United Provinces made it possible the British power to tap many colonial concessions in the the Indies Dutchwomen.

Causes

The XVIII century saw the economic, political decline and soldier of the United Provinces and the subsequent transfer of Amsterdam towards London of commercial hegemony European. Pulled about between the prompt Orangistes to assist the Stathouder House of Orange-Nassau in their search to take an effective political role and the Republican, the republic Dutchwoman had seen her influence on many colonies passing to rival powers.

Bound to Great Britain by the Glorious revolution English of 1688 and by a defensive treaty of alliance (1678), the United Provinces had been nevertheless the first to recognize American independence, before even the France. This thumb your nose with the British empire, which had since more than one century treated the United Provinces with leniency, to see of a heat condescension, had an negative impact on the relations between the two allied ones. Following the entry in war of France at the sides of the insurrectionists, the United Provinces adopted a policy of neutrality whereas they would have owed, according to Great Britain, to carry assistance to him. More especially as this declared neutrality made it possible the French vessels to wet in the Dutch ports and to supply itself with Asia and Americas in the colonies Dutchwomen.

The British Crown ordered to excavate the Dutch ships in the search of goods American or French, suspecting the United Provinces of smugglings, which did not fail to irritate the Republic. It is undoubtedly besides probable that the population Dutchwoman and the intellectual elite showed a little too much sympathy to the American cause; Great Britain declared finally the war in reaction to discovered of a secret commercial draft treaty between the town of Amsterdam and the rebels American, pushing blow the Republic Dutchwoman in the camp of France, the Spain and the American insurrectionists.

Engagements

Treaty of Paris

By the Treated of Paris, the United Provinces yield Nagapattinam to the Great Britain which returns Ceylon to them. Moreover, the treaty makes it possible to the British merchants to trade in certain colonies Dutchwomen of the Eastern Indies, accelerating the decomposition of the colonial Empire Dutch.

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