List of wars involving the Dutch Republic

This is a list of wars involving the Dutch Republic, which emerged from the Habsburg Netherlands during the Eighty Years' War ( 1566–1648). The set of "United Provinces" that would later become the Dutch Republic proclaimed its independence in 1581. In the Low Countries theatre of the War of the First Coalition, the Dutch Republic was conquered by the First French Republic in 1795, and replaced by the Batavian Republic. For earlier wars, see List of wars in the Low Countries until 1560. For simultaneous wars in the south, see List of wars in the southern Low Countries (1560–1829) – includes wars on the present territory of Belgium and Luxembourg, including the Southern Netherlands (Spanish Netherlands & Austrian Netherlands), the Principality of Liège, the Princely Abbey of Stavelot-Malmedy, the Prince-Bishopric of Cambrésis and the Imperial City of Cambray, the Duchy of Bouillon, and smaller states. For wars after 1795, see List of wars involving the Netherlands.

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Conflict and date Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Result

Eighty Years' War( 1566/1568–1648) Spanish Empire

European co-belligerent: Holy Roman Empire(1629, 1632, 1635)

Native overseas allies(from the 1600s) Peace of Münster Spain recognises Dutch independence Dutch–Portuguese War(1598–1663) Treaty of The Hague Beaver Wars1609–1701 Iroquois League Mohawks Oneida Seneca Onondaga Cayuga

Supported by: Dutch Republic Huron Algonquin Susquehannock Erie Neutral Petun Odawa Ojibwe Wenro Mahican Innu Abenaki Supported by: Indecisive Great Peace of Montreal Huron-Wendat Confederacy destroyed Ternatean–Portuguese conflicts1530–1605 (intermittently) Sultanate of Ternate Dutch East India Company (from 1599) Portuguese Empire Spanish Empire Victory Ming–Qing War(1618–1683) Victory Collapse of the Ming dynasty and Southern Ming dynasty Suppression of the rebel Kingdom of Shu, Xi dynasty, Shun dynasty, and Kingdom of Tungning Consolidation of Qing dynasty rule in China proper Uskok War (1615–1617) Kingdom of CroatiaSpain Victory Many Uskok pirates executed or exiled; Austrian garrison installed to check Uskoks. Dutch–Barbary War(1618–1622) Tunisia Victory Dutch achieve favourable treaty, and attack on Dutch ships stop Expedition to Algiers (1624) Dutch conquest of the Banda Islands(1609–1621) (VOC) Bandanese fighters East India Company Victory Banda massacre committed Dutch forces colonise the Banda Islands. Expedition to Algiers(1624) VictorySiamese–Spanish War(1624–1636) Dutch East India Company Iberian Union Spanish East Indies Council of Portugal Macau Goa Malacca Victory Dutch hegemony on Southeast Asia Siege of Batavia(1628–1629) Victory The Mataram siege repelled Dutch pacification campaign on Formosa(1635–1636) Natives of Mattau, Bakloan, Soulang, Taccariang and Tevorang Victory Increased Dutch area of control Lamey Island massacre(1636) Taiwanese militia Victory Shimabara rebellion(1637–1638) Tokugawa shogunate Christian peasant and ronin rebels Victory National seclusion policy imposed Christianity driven underground in Japan Cambodian–Dutch War (1643–1644) DefeatBattle of the Gianh River(1643) Nguyễn domain of Đàng Trong Defeat Kieft's War(1643–1645) LenapeVictory Torstenson War(1643–1645) Victory Sinhalese–Portuguese War(1538–1640) (from 1638) Lascarins Victory End of the kingdoms of Kotte, Sitawaka, Jaffna, and Raigama End of Portuguese Ceylon Incorporation of parts of Kotte and Sitawaka into the Kingdom of Kandy Capture of Colombo, Galle, Jaffna, Raigama, and much of Sitawaka by the Dutch and the establishment of Dutch CeylonConflict between Willem Leyel and Bernt Pessart(1643–1645) Leyel loyalist Dutch Coromandel English Madras Portuguese Carical Supported by: Thanjavur Nayak Pessart loyalist Victory All of Danish India accepts Willem Leyel as governor Guo Huaiyi rebellion(1652) Guo Huaiyi's peasant army Victory Portuguese Restoration War(1640–1668) (1641–1648) (1641–1659) (1662–1668) Spain Victory Acclamation of John IV as the new King of Portugal (1640) The Habsburgs relinquish all claims to the Portuguese Throne Treaty of Lisbon (1668) End of the Iberian Union The Great Ambon War(1651–1656) other allies Sultanate of Ternateother allies Victory First Anglo-Dutch War(1652–1654) Inconclusive Treaty of Westminster Loevestein faction gains power in Dutch Republic at Orangists' expense Capture of Fort Casimir(1654) Defeat Delaware River falls into Swedish control Conquest of New Sweden(1655) Victory Dutch annexation of New Sweden Peach War(1655) Lenape Defeat Outlying Dutch settlements ordered to garrison at Fort Amsterdam Staten Island abandoned but eventually retaken and equipped with better defenses Capture of Carolusborg (1658) Denmark–NorwayFetu Kingdom Rebellious slaves Victory Carolusborg conquered by Denmark-Norway Dano-Swedish War (1658–1660) Denmark–Norway Victory Second Northern War(1655–1660) Poland(Poland-Lithuania) Denmark–Norway Russia (1656–1658) Crimean Khanate Brandenburg-Prussia (1655–1656, 1657–1660) Swedish Empire Brandenburg-Prussia (1656–1657) Principality of Transylvania Ukrainian Cossacks (1657)Hrushevsky (2003), pp. 327ff. Grand Duchy of Lithuania Victory Scania, Halland, Blekinge, Bohuslän, and Ven become Swedish Duchy of Prussia becomes a sovereign state Sweden's sovereignty in Swedish Livonia accepted First Khoikhoi–Dutch Wars(1659–1660) Khoikhoi militia Victory Esopus Wars(1659–1663) Dutch settlersMohawk Esopus Victory Siege of Fort Zeelandia(1661–1662) Dutch East India Company China (Ming dynasty) Defeat Dano-Dutch War(1661–1665) Dutch West India Company Defeat First Tondano War(1661–1664) Minahasan peoples Victory Trịnh–Nguyễn War(1627–1672)–(1774–1777) Trịnh lords Tây Sơn rebellion Nguyễn lords Portugal Victory Makassar War(1666–1669) Sultanate of Gowa Victory Treaty of Bongaya Second Anglo-Dutch War(1665–1667) Denmark Bishopric of Münster Victory Uti possidetis Treaty of Breda Mughal conquest of Chittagong(1665–1666) Mughal Empire Bengal Subah Dutch Republic Portuguese India Kingdom of Mrauk UBurmese and Portuguese pirates Victory Annexation of Chittagong into Dominion of Hindustan as Bengal Subah First Münster WarPart of the Second Anglo-Dutch War(1665–1666) Dutch Republic Bishopric of MünsterSupported by: Kingdom of England Victory Treaty of Kleve Bernhard von Galen renounces his claim to the Lordship of Borculo First Dutch-Zamorin War(1666–1668) Dutch East India Company Zamorin of Calicut Victory Second Dutch-Zamorin War(1670–1672) Dutch East India Company Zamorin of Calicut Victory Chetwai ceded to the Dutch Kandyan–Dutch War(1670–1675) Kingdom of Kandy Victory French expelled from all occupied territories Expansion of Dutch Ceylon, and Rajasinha's offenses repelled Third Anglo-Dutch War(1672–1674) Victory Treaty of Westminster (1674) Second Münster War(1672–1674) Dutch Republic Bishopric of Münster Kingdom of France Electorate of Cologne Victory Franco-Dutch War(1672–1678) (from 1673) (from 1673) Brandenburg-Prussia (from 1673) Lorraine (from 1673) Denmark–Norway (from 1674) (1678) (1672–1674) Münster (1672–1674) Cologne (1672–1674) Swedish Empire (from 1674) Treaties of Nijmegen Large French territorial gains at expense of anti-French Alliance (Franche-Comté and territories in the Spanish Netherlands) France returns occupied Dutch territories of Maastricht and Principality of Orange in exchange for these gains Second Khoikhoi–Dutch Wars(1673–1677) Khoikhoi allies Khoikhoi militia Victory Trunajaya rebellion(1674–1680) Mataram Sultanate Dutch East India Company (VOC) VOC's Indonesian allies Rebel forcesMakassarese itinerant fighters

Rival claimants to Mataram throne (after 1677) Victory Scanian War(1675–1679) Denmark-Norway Brandenburg-Prussia Supported by: Scanian insurgents Swedish Empire Kingdom of France Treaty of Fontainebleau (1679) Treaty of Lund (1679) Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye (1679) Sweden cedes most of its Pomeranian areas east of the Oder to Brandenburg-Prussia. Nine Years' War(1688–1697) Spanish Empire Jacobites Treaty of Ryswick Louis XIV recognises William III of Orange as King of England, Scotland and Ireland. Siamese Revolution(1688) Phetracha and various Siamese lords Dutch East India Company Prasat Thong dynasty French East India Company Victory Establishment of Ban Phlu Luang dynasty. Expulsion of French troops in Bangkok. Williamite War in Ireland(1689–1691) Williamites Jacobites Victory Treaty of Limerick Withdrawal of remaining Jacobite forces to France Confirmation of William as King of Ireland War of the Spanish Succession(1701–1714) Austrian monarchy Prussia England (until 1707) Great Britain (from 1707) Holy Roman Empire Piedmont-Savoy Habsburg Spain Spanish monarchy Bavaria (~1704) Cologne Mantua (~1708) Treaty of Utrecht (1713) Treaty of Rastatt (1714) Treaty of Baden (1714) Philip is recognised as King of Spain, but once more renounces any claim to the throne of France The Dutch Republic retains various forts in the Southern Netherlands and annexes a part of Spanish Guelders Spain and Britain sign the Asiento Spain cedes the Spanish Netherlands, Kingdom of Naples, Duchy of Milan, and Sardinia to the Habsburg monarchy, Sicily to the Duchy of Savoy and Gibraltar and Menorca to Britain France recognizes British sovereignty over Rupert's Land and Newfoundland and cedes Acadia and its half of Saint Kitts to Great Britain Spain cedes the Colony of Sacramento to the Portuguese Empire The decline of Spanish global power Third Dutch-Zamorin War(1701–1710) Dutch East India Company Zamorin of Calicut Victory First Javanese War of Succession(1704–1707) Victory Dutch–Algerian War(1715–1726) Victory Fourth Dutch-Zamorin War(1715–1718) Dutch East India Company Zamorin of Calicut English East India Company (1715–1717) Victory Dutch annexation of Pappinivattam and Chettuva War indemnity of 85,000 gold coins was paid to the Dutch War of the Quadruple Alliance(1718–1720) Austria Spain Victory Treaty of The Hague Austria cedes Sardinia to Savoy Savoy cedes Sicily to Austria Jacobite rising(1719) Jacobites Spain Victory Second Javanese War of Succession(1719–1723) Rebel Princes Victory Rebellion of Sheikh Ahmad Madani(1730–1734) Safavid Empire Nader's personal domains English East India Company Dutch East India Company (VOC) Forces Loyal to Sheikh Ahmad MadaniForces Loyal to Sheikh JabbaraForces Loyal to Sheikh Rashid bin Sa'id of BasaiduRebelling Arab tribes Hotak remnants and Afghan raiders Victory Persian Gulf Arabs reincorporated into Safavid EmpireBattle of Jacobshavn(1739) Denmark-Norway Defeat Dutch presence on Greenland collapses Batavia massacre(1740) Native Indonesians allies Chinese Indonesian militia Military victoryPolitical failure Governor-General Adriaan Valckenier was arrested by the Dutch government for the atrocity and replaced by Johannes Thedens War of the Austrian Succession(1740–1748) (1744–1748) Hanover (1743–1745) Sardinia (1742–1748) (1741–1743, 1748) (1740–1742, 1744–1745) Spain (1741–1745) (1741–1742) Sardinia (1741–1642) (1745–1748) Sweden (1741–1743) Duchy of Modena Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle Prussian control of Silesia confirmed Duchies of Parma, Piacenza, and Guastalla ceded to the Spanish Bourbons All other territories restored to pre-war owners Travancore–Dutch War(1741–1757) Kingdom of Cochin Kingdom of Travancore Maratha Empire Mysore Military stalemate Java War(1741–1743) Joint army of Chinese and Javanese Victory Battle of Penfui(1749) Timorese allies TopassesTimorese allies Victory Third Javanese War of Succession(1749–1757) Mataram Sultanate(until 1755)Yogyakarta Sultanate (from 1755)Surakarta Sunanate(from 1755) Anti-Dutch rebels Victory End of the Mataram Sultanate Division of Mataram in 3 independent states called Surakarta Sunanate, Yogyakarta Sultanate, and Mangkunegaran Palace Raden Mas Said's surrender Cirebon War (1753–1773)