There have been multiple military invasions of the Netherlands or its predecessor states, including:
The Capture of Brielle by the Watergeuzen (1572), during the Dutch Revolt The Franco-Dutch War (1672–78), during which France and Munster occupied much of the Netherlands Prussian invasion of Holland (1787), during the Batavian Revolution The culmination of the Flanders Campaign (1792–95), invasion by France during the War of the First Coalition Anglo-Russian invasion of Holland (1799), during the War of the Second Coalition Walcheren Campaign (1809), during the War of the Fifth Coalition German invasion of the Netherlands (1940), during the Second World War