Peace of Breda

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Peace Congress in Breda; (Contemporary engraving)

In the Peace of Breda on July 31, 1667, the Kingdom of England and the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands concluded a peace treaty in Breda , which ended the Second Anglo-Dutch Sea War (1663-1667) . On the Dutch side, the lead was Johan de Witt , who was in charge of the country as a pensioner for over 20 years.

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The provisions of the peace treaty were moderate. The provisions of the Navigational Act were facilitated in that the Dutch merchant ships were allowed to deliver to England merchandise that was transported downstream on the Rhine to the Netherlands. England vacated the Poeloe Run base in Indonesia and recognized Dutch rule in Suriname , which a small Dutch expedition had conquered in 1667. But England kept the colony of Nieuw Nederland . The fact that the Netherlands had withdrawn from North America on the one hand and England from Suriname and Indonesia on the other resulted in real relaxation.

In the further political development the similarities and differences between England and the United Netherlands continued to appear. As early as January 1668, the two countries formed a triple alliance with the Kingdom of Sweden to force Louis XIV to withdraw from the Spanish Netherlands. The war of devolution was ended on May 2, 1668 in the Peace of Aachen . Thereafter, the expansionist efforts of the French king were directed against the United Netherlands, by which he felt betrayed. King Charles II allied himself in 1670 in the secret Treaty of Dover with King Louis XIV and with this in 1672 opened the joint attack against the United Netherlands ( → Dutch War ). This war is also known as the Third Anglo-Dutch Sea War . This ended in 1674, before English troops even supported the United Netherlands from 1678 in the war against France in order to prevent its domination in Europe.

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