The following year , a Dutch team was contracted Renting to raise Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale the hull .

The French squadron comprised Containing six frigates engaged Hostile_encounter on a commerce raiding Attack operation Military_operation against British trade routes passing Motion_directional through captured Conquering parts of the Dutch East Indies , and posed Causation a considerable threat to the weakened British naval forces in the region .

Habsburg Spain , wishing to finally crush Bodily_harm the Dutch rebels in the Netherlands and the Dutch Republic ( which was de facto independent since 1581 but de jure still a part of the Holy Roman Empire ) , intervened under the pretext of helping its dynastic Habsburg ally , Austria .

Habsburg Spain , wishing to finally crush Bodily_harm the Dutch rebels in the Netherlands and the Dutch Republic ( which was de facto independent since 1581 but de jure still a part of the Holy Roman Empire ) , intervened under the pretext of helping its dynastic Habsburg ally , Austria .

The Dutch Republic enjoyed contrasting fortune ; it obtained Getting independence from the Holy Roman Empire and also from Spain ( which had directly controlled Control the Dutch lands despite it not being part of the Holy Roman Empire ) thus concluding Process_end its 80-year revolt Change_of_leadership against Spain .

The Dutch Republic enjoyed contrasting fortune ; it obtained Getting independence from the Holy Roman Empire and also from Spain ( which had directly controlled Control the Dutch lands despite it not being part of the Holy Roman Empire ) thus concluding Process_end its 80-year revolt Change_of_leadership against Spain .

The PK-AFV `` Pelikaan '' was on a flight from Bandung , Dutch East Indies ( later Indonesia ) , to Broome , Western Australia when it was attacked Attack by Japanese aircraft that were carrying out Action an attack on Broome .

Taking Gold was to be the responsibility of the British Army , with sea transport Military_operation , mine sweeping Scouring , and a naval bombardment force Military_operation provided Supply by the Royal Navy as well as elements from the Dutch , Polish and other Allied navies .

Six Dutch archers competed Competition ; none qualified Becoming_a_member for any of the individual event finals Process_end .

The war occurred Presence within the context of the Protestant Reformation Reforming_a_system in Germany and the subsequent Counter-Reformation , and concurrently with the Dutch Revolt Hostile_encounter and the French Wars Hostile_encounter of Religion .

Several of the barons and counts holding Hold territory with feudal obligations Imposing_obligation to the Elector also held Hold territory in nearby Dutch provinces ; Westphalia , Liege and the Southern , or Spanish Netherlands .

Complexities of enfeoffment and dynastic `` appanage '' magnified Expansion a localized feud into one including supporters from the Electorate of the Palatinate and Dutch , Scots and English mercenaries on the Protestant side , and Bavarian and papal mercenaries on the Catholic side .

The conflict coincided with the Dutch Revolt , 1568–1648 , encouraging Influence the participation of the rebellious Dutch provinces and the Spanish .

The conflict coincided with the Dutch Revolt , 1568–1648 , encouraging Influence the participation of the rebellious Dutch provinces and the Spanish .

England , as hosts - and also as Olympic bronze medallists - were viewed Change_sentiment as having quite a tough group , containing Olympic champions Pakistan , and a highly fancied Dutch side , with the Soviet Union seen Change_sentiment as potential dark-horse outsiders .

The Soviets scored Hold surprise victories over both Pakistan and England , leaving Departing England in danger of going out of their own tournament in the group stages : however they recovered Recovering to win Earnings_and_losses their final match , against the Dutch .

England topped Placing the group on goal difference with the Soviets to follow , the Dutch unfortunate to be in third .

Until the 1990s the festival attracted Influence mostly Flemish festivalgoers , but in recent years it has become Becoming more and more international with an especially large influx of Dutch , French , Walloon and British visitors , with notable Australian , South African and other contingents .

The Dutch Republic often intervened Hindering against Sweden in an informal trade war but was not a recognized part of the Polish–Danish alliance .

As stadtholder of Holland , William was de facto ruler of the Dutch Republic ; the coalition he built Building after 1678 to defend Defending it against French expansion was threatened by an Anglo-French alliance .

Due to the lack of evidence , Irish and Dutch investigators could not pinpoint Placing a probable cause for the accident .

Both peoples were traditionally Roman Catholic as contrasted with the largely Protestant ( Dutch Reformed ) people of the north .

Dutch units saw the mass desertion of recruits from the southern provinces and pulled out GiveUp .

Sultan Said received Receiving direct financing Supply to raise an armed Bearing_arms force to occupy Control the Imamate of Oman from Iraq Petroleum Company ( IPC ) , a consortium of oil companies that was majorly owned by what-is-known-today as Royal Dutch Shell , Total , ExxonMobil and British Petroleum ( BP ) ; the latter was majority-owned by the British government .

Subsequent to the withdrawal Escaping of the Dutch administration from the Netherlands New Guinea in 1962 and implementation of Indonesian administration in 1963 , the Free Papua Movement has conducted Action a low-intensity guerrilla war against Indonesia through the targeting Aiming of its military and police .

The Eighty Years ' War Hostile_encounter ( ; ) or Dutch War Hostile_encounter of Independence ( 1568–1648 ) was a revolt Change_of_leadership of the Seventeen Provinces of what are today the Netherlands , Belgium , and Luxembourg against Philip II of Spain , the sovereign Change_of_leadership of the Habsburg Netherlands .

The war Hostile_encounter continued in other areas , although the heartland of the republic was no longer threatened ; this included Cause_to_be_included the beginnings Process_start of the Dutch Colonial Empire , which at the time were conceived Creating as carrying Bringing overseas the war Hostile_encounter with Spain .

The Dutch Republic was recognized Know by Spain and the major European powers in 1609 at the start Process_start of the Twelve Years ' Truce Process_end .

An end Process_end was reached Arriving in 1648 with the Peace of Münster ( a treaty part of the Peace of Westphalia ) , when the Dutch Republic was definitively recognised Know as an independent country no longer part of the Holy Roman Empire .

The Recapture of Angola , or Reconquest of Angola , was a military campaign Hostile_encounter fought Hostile_encounter between the Portuguese and the Dutch occupiers of Angola .

Its most important episode was the siege imposed Imposing_obligation by the Portuguese on the far larger Dutch garrison of Luanda .

In 1641 Johan Maurits sent Sending an expedition under Admiral Cornelis Jol from Recife in Dutch Brazil to seize Conquering the Angolan capital of Luanda .

The Dutch were able to easily capture Conquering Luanda in August as the Portuguese forces were occupied Control inland in a campaign against the Kingdom of Kongo .

The two countries fought Hostile_encounter to a stalemate over Angola , until in 1648 the governor of Rio de Janeiro and Angola , Salvador de Sá , reached Arriving Luanda and finding Know the city defended by 1200 Dutch troops , besieged Besieging them and regained Getting it for Portugal exactly seven years after its loss .

When a Dutch force of 300 soldiers returned Arriving from the interior to help Assistance their garrison of Luanda , they also surrendered Surrendering to the Portuguese , but their allied warriors of the Queen Ndjinga fought Hostile_encounter a battle against the Portuguese and were defeated Conquering as well .

Then , Salvador Correia de Sa sent Sending a force to Benguela where the Dutch garrison surrendered Surrendering .

He also sent Sending a fleet which recaptured Conquering the archipelago of São Tomé e Príncipe from the Dutch , who left GiveUp behind their artillery .

This was a decisive Dutch defeat Conquering since the Dutch Brazil could n't survive Preserving without the slaves from Angola .

This was a decisive Dutch defeat Conquering since the Dutch Brazil could n't survive Preserving without the slaves from Angola .

And the end of the Dutch presence in South America ( with the exception of the Guiana ) meant not only the bankruptcy of the WIC , but also the end of the West Dutch empire .

And the end of the Dutch presence in South America ( with the exception of the Guiana ) meant not only the bankruptcy of the WIC , but also the end of the West Dutch empire .

In 1794 , early in the French Revolutionary Wars , the army of the French Republic overran Conquering the Dutch Republic which then became Becoming a French client state , the Batavian Republic .

Among the fatalities Death was Dutch artist .

Dutch investigators placed Placing a greater emphasis on mutual misunderstanding in radio communications between the KLM crew and ATC , but ultimately KLM admitted that their crew was responsible for the accident and the airline agreed Agree_or_refuse_to_act to financially compensate Rewards_and_punishments the relatives of all of the victims .

The victory proved decisive in two ways ; first it denied Agree_or_refuse_to_act the Spanish an important large independent base and port from which to operate Being_in_operation in Brittany against the English and Dutch .

The Dutch Republic had been a British ally during the French Revolutionary Wars , but was overrun by the French Republic in the winter of 1794 and reformed Reforming_a_system into the client state Statement of the Batavian Republic .

The British government , working with the exiled Stadtholder William of Orange , ordered Arranging the seizure of Batavian assets including colonies of the former Dutch Empire .

Following short sieges Besieging British forces were able to secure control Control of the Dutch colony , and Ceylon would remain Presence a part of the British Empire for the next 153 years .

War Military_operation between Britain and the Batavian Republic began Process_start , undeclared , in the spring of 1795 after the Admiralty ordered Request British warships to intercept Attack Batavian shipping following the conquest Conquering of the Dutch Republic by the French Republic in January 1795 .

During the second phase , lasting from late 1942 until the Japanese surrender Surrendering , the Allies—consisting primarily of Australian and US forces—cleared the Japanese first from Papua , then the Mandate and finally from the Dutch colony .