List of wars involving the Netherlands

This is a list of wars involving the Kingdom of the Netherlands since its independence in 1581.

• United Provinces (1581–1795)
• Batavian Republic (1795–1806)
• Kingdom of Holland (1806–1810)
• United Kingdom of the Netherlands (1815–1839)
• Netherlands (1839–present)

List

Conflict	Combatant 1	Combatant 2	Results
Eighty Years' War (1568–1648)	United Provinces  England Nassau  France	Spanish Empire  Holy Roman Empire	Victory Peace of Münster Independence of the Dutch Republic Spanish retention of the Southern Netherlands
Dutch–Portuguese War (1601–1661)	Dutch Republic	Portugal Spanish Empire	Dutch victory in the East Portuguese victory in South America and Africa Treaty of Hague Formation of the Dutch Empire Portuguese Restoration War
Trịnh–Nguyễn War (1627–1672)	Trịnh lords  Dutch Republic	Nguyễn lords	Indecisive
Siege of Batavia (1628–1629)	Dutch Republic	Mataram Sultanate	Victory The Mataram siege repelled
Dutch pacification campaign on Formosa (1635–1636)	Dutch Republic	Natives of Mattau, Bakloan, Soulang, Taccariang and Tevorang	Victory Increased Dutch area of control
Shimabara Rebellion (1637-1638)	Tokugawa shogunate  Dutch Republic	Christian peasant and ronin rebels	Victory National seclusion policy imposed Christianity driven underground in Japan
Sinhalese–Portuguese War (1538-1640)	Kingdom of Sitawaka  Kingdom of Kandy  Dutch East India Company (from 1638)	Portuguese Empire Lascarins  Kingdom of Kotte	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 Ceylon
Guo Huaiyi Rebellion (1652)	Dutch Republic Taiwanese aborigines	Guo Huaiyi's peasant army	Victory
First Anglo-Dutch War (1652–1654)	Dutch Republic	Commonwealth of England	Defeat Treaty of Westminster
Peach Tree War (1655)	Dutch Republic	Susquehannock and allied tribes	Defeat Outlying Dutch settlements ordered to garrison at Fort Amsterdam Staten Island abandoned but eventually retaken and equipped with better defenses.
Second Northern War (1655–1660)	Poland (Poland-Lithuania) Denmark–Norway  Habsburg Monarchy Russia (1656–58) Crimean Khanate Brandenburg-Prussia (1655–56, 1657–60)  Dutch Republic	Swedish Empire Brandenburg-Prussia (1656–57) Principality of Transylvania Ukrainian Cossacks (1657)[1] Grand Duchy of Lithuania  Wallachia  Moldavia	Victory Scania, Halland, Blekinge, Bohuslän and Ven become Swedish Duchy of Prussia becomes a sovereign state Sweden's sovereignty in Swedish Livonia accepted Loss of New Sweden to the Netherlands
Esopus Wars (1659–1663)	Dutch settlers Iroquois Confederacy	Esopus tribe of Lenape Indians Susquehannock and allied tribes	Victory
Second Anglo-Dutch War (1665–1667)	Dutch Republic Denmark  France	England Bishopric of Münster	Victory Uti possidetis Treaty of Breda
Third Anglo-Dutch War (1672–1674)	Dutch Republic Denmark-Norway	England  France Bishopric of Münster Electorate of Cologne	Victory Treaty of Westminster (1674)
Nine Years' War (1688–1697)	Dutch Republic  England  Holy Roman Empire Spanish Empire  Duchy of Savoy Swedish Empire (until 1691)  Scotland	France Jacobites	Victory Treaty of Ryswick Louis XIV recognises William III of Orange as King of England, Scotland and Ireland.
War of the Spanish Succession (1701–1714)	Dutch Republic Austrian monarchy Prussia England (until 1707) Great Britain (from 1707) Holy Roman Empire Piedmont-Savoy Habsburg Spain  Portugal	France Spanish monarchy Bavaria (~1704) Cologne Mantua (~1708)	Political victory for Spain loyal to Philip Military victory for Spain loyal to Charles 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 Minorca 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
First Javanese War of Succession (1704–1707)	Dutch Republic	Mataram Sultanate	Victory
Second Javanese War of Succession (1719–1723)	Dutch Republic  Mataram Sultanate	Rebel Princes	Victory
Java War (1741–43) (1741–1743)	Dutch Republic	Joint army of Chinese and Javanese	Victory
Trịnh–Nguyễn War (1774–1775)	Trịnh lords Later Lê Dynasty  Dutch Republic	Nguyễn lords	Victory
American Revolutionary War (1775–1783)	United States France Spain  Netherlands Mysore Oneida Tuscarora Watauga Association Catawba Lenape Choctaw	Great Britain Loyalists German Auxiliaries Iroquois Onondaga Mohawk Cayuga Seneca Cherokee	Victory Treaty of Paris Britain recognizes the independence of the United States of America End of the First British Empire
Fourth Anglo-Dutch War (1780–1784)	Dutch Republic  Kingdom of France	Great Britain	Defeat Treaty of Paris (1784) Britain gains free trade rights in parts of the Dutch East Indies Dutch cede Negapatnam to Britain.
Second Anglo-Mysore War (1780–1784)	Kingdom of Mysore  Kingdom of France  Dutch Republic	East India Company  Great Britain	Stalemate Status quo ante bellum Treaty of Mangalore
War of the First Coalition (1792–1797)	Holy Roman Empire Austria  Prussia (until 1795)  Great Britain French Royalists  Spain (until 1795)  Portugal  Sardinia (until 1796)  Naples and Sicily Other Italian states  Dutch Republic	Kingdom of the French (until 1792) French Republic (from 1792)  Spain (from 1796)  Batavian Republic (from 1795) French satellite states Polish Legions (from 1797)	Regime change, Victory for the Batavian Republic Peace of Basel, Treaty of Campo Formio Survival of the French Republic French annexation of the Austrian Netherlands, the Left Bank of the Rhine and other smaller territories Several French client republics established Hostilities resume in 1798 with the formation of a Second Coalition against France
War of the Second Coalition (1799-1802)	French Republic  Spain Polish Legions Denmark–Norway French client republics:  Batavian Republic  Helvetic Republic Cisalpine Republic Roman Republic Parthenopaean Republic	Austria  Russia  Great Britain French Royalists Portugal  Two Sicilies  Ottoman Empire	Victory Treaty of Amiens: General French victory Britain recognises the French Republic Cape Colony returned to the Batavian Republic British withdrawal from Egypt French withdrawal from the Papal States Trinidad and Tobago ceded from France Ceylon ceded from the Batavian Republic
War of the Third Coalition (1803-1806)	French Empire Batavia Italy Etruria  Spain Bavaria Württemberg	Austrian Empire  Russian Empire Naples and Sicily Portugal  Great Britain  Sweden	Victory Treaty of Pressburg Consolidation of the French Empire Dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire Creation of the Confederation of the Rhine Hostilities resume few months later with the formation of a Fourth Coalition against France
Padri War (1803-1838)	Adats  Netherlands	Padris	Victory
War of the Fourth Coalition (1806-1807)	French Empire French satellites: Confederation of the Rhine:  Bavaria  Württemberg Saxony[2] Polish Legions  Napoleonic Italy  Kingdom of Naples Etruria Holland  Spain Swiss Confederation	Prussia  Russia  United Kingdom Saxony[3]  Sweden Sicily	Victory Treaties of Tilsit Prussia lost one half of its territory Creation of the Duchy of Warsaw Franco-Russian alliance Promulgation of the Continental System Hostilities resume in 1808 with the commencement of the Peninsular War and expanded in 1809 with the formation of a Fifth Coalition against France
War of the Fifth Coalition (1809)	French Empire French satellites: Confederation of the Rhine:  Bavaria Saxony  Württemberg  Westphalia  Napoleonic Italy Naples Switzerland Holland	Austria Hungary Tyrol (in rebellion against Bavaria)  United Kingdom  Spain Sicily  Sardinia Black Brunswickers	Victory Treaty of Schönbrunn Franco-Austrian Alliance Napoléon marries Marie Louise of Austria Hostilities in the Peninsular War maintained General hostilities across Europe resume in 1812 with the French Invasion of Russia and expand in 1813 with the formation of a Sixth Coalition against France
Hundred Days (1815) War of the Seventh Coalition	United Kingdom  Prussia Hanover German Confederation  Austria  Russia  Sweden  Netherlands  Spain Portugal  Sardinia  Kingdom of the Two Sicilies Tuscany	French Empire  Kingdom of Naples	Victory Treaty of Paris: General French defeat Restoration of the House of Bourbon Abolition of the slave trade (all signatories) ₣100,000,000 compensation from France
Java War (1825-1830)	United Kingdom of the Netherlands Pro-Dutch Javanese	Rebel forces of Prince Diponegoro Chinese mercenaries	Victory Diponegoro deported to Makassar
Belgian Revolution (1830-1831)	United Kingdom of the Netherlands	Belgian rebels Supported by: France	Defeat The main European powers recognized Belgium's de facto independence from the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
First Sumatran expedition (1832)	United States  Netherlands	Chiefdom of Kuala Batee	Victory
Dutch–Ahanta War (1837-1839)	United Kingdom of the Netherlands	Ahanta Kingdom	Victory Ahanta becomes a Dutch protectorate
Second Sumatran expedition (1838)	United States  Netherlands	Chiefdom of Kuala Batee	Victory
Dutch intervention in Bali (1849-1850)	Netherlands Lombok	Buleleng Jembrana Klungkung	Victory Dutch control of Northern Bali.
Expedition against the Chinese in Montrado (1854-1855)	Netherlands Pro-Dutch Indonesians	Pro-Chinese Indonesian rebels China	Victory
Banjarmasin War (1859-1863)	Netherlands	Sultanate of Banjarmasin	Victory
Shimonoseki Campaign (1863-1864)	Netherlands  British Empire French Empire  United States	Chōshū Domain	Victory
Dutch Gold Coast expedition of 1869–70 (1869-1870)	Netherlands	Local rulers	Victory Dutch Gold Coast sold to Britain in 1872
Aceh War (1873-1914)	Netherlands	Aceh Sultanate Acehnese religious ulama Thai and Chinese mercenaries	Victory Imposition of Dutch rule on Aceh. Aceh is annexed into the Dutch East Indies.
Dutch intervention in Lombok and Karangasem (1894)	Netherlands Eastern Sasak	Lombok Mataram Western Sasak	Victory Dutch control of Lombok and Karangasem.
Dutch intervention in Bali (1906) (1906)	Netherlands	Badung Tabanan Klungkung	Victory Dutch control of southern Bali.
Dutch–Venezuelan crisis of 1908 (1908)	Netherlands	Venezuela	Victory Overthrow of Cipriano Castro
World War II (1940–1945)	Soviet Union  United States  United Kingdom  China  France  Poland  Canada  Australia  New Zealand  India  South Africa  Yugoslavia  Greece  Denmark  Norway  Netherlands  Belgium  Luxembourg  Czechoslovakia  Brazil  Mexico  Ethiopia	Germany  Japan  Italy  Hungary  Romania  Bulgaria  Finland  Thailand  Manchukuo  Mengjiang  Croatia  Slovakia	Victory Collapse of the Third Reich Fall of Japanese and Italian Empires Creation of the United Nations Emergence of the United States and the Soviet Union as superpowers Beginning of the Cold War
Indonesian National Revolution (1940–1949)	Netherlands	Indonesia	Dutch military victory Indonesian political victory Indonesia secured its independence Dutch recognised United States of Indonesia in Dutch-Indonesian Round Table Conference
Korean War (1950–1953)	South Korea  United States  United Kingdom  Netherlands  United Nations	North Korea  China  Soviet Union	Ceasefire Communist invasions of South Korea repelled Subsequent UN invasion of North Korea repelled Subsequent communist invasion of South Korea repelled
Operation Trikora (1961–1962)	Netherlands	Indonesia	Western New Guinea ceded to Indonesia.
Gulf War (1990–1991)	Kuwait  United States  United Kingdom  Saudi Arabia  France  Egypt  Syria  Netherlands Other Allies	Iraq	Victory Kuwait regains its independence
Bosnian War (1992–1995)	Bosnia and Herzegovina  United States  United Kingdom  Netherlands  France  Canada  Denmark  Germany  Italy	Republika Srpska	Victory Dayton Accords Internal partition of Bosnia and Herzegovina according to the Dayton Accords Deployment of NATO-led IFOR to oversee the peace agreement Massive civilian casualties for the Bosniak ethnic group
Kosovo War (1998–1999)	Kosovo Liberation Army  United States  United Kingdom  Netherlands  France  Canada  Denmark  Germany  Italy	Yugoslavia	Victory Kumanovo Treaty Yugoslav forces pull out of Kosovo United Nations Resolution 1244 NATO intervention KLA veterans join the UÇPMB, starting the Preševo insurgency Bulldozer Revolution in 2000
War in Afghanistan (2001–2014)	Afghanistan  United States  United Kingdom  Canada  Netherlands  Germany  Italy  France  Denmark  Poland  Romania  Turkey  Australia  Spain ISAF	Taliban al-Qaeda Haqqani network Hezb-e-Islami Gulbuddin United Tajik Opposition IMU Other groups	Victory Fall of Taliban régime Osama bin Laden killed Ongoing Taliban insurgency
Iraq War (2003–2011)	United States  United Kingdom  Iraq after the fall of Saddam Hussein  Australia  Poland  Netherlands  Denmark  Iraqi Kurdistan	Iraq under Saddam Hussein Sunni insurgents al-Qaeda in Iraq (2004–2006) Islamic State of Iraq (2006–2011)[4] Islamic Army of Iraq Ansar al-Sunnah Shia insurgents Mahdi Army Special Groups Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq Others	Victory Fall of Ba'athist rule in Iraq Occupation of southern Iraq Dutch withdrawal in 2009, conflict ended in 2011
Operation Ocean Shield (2009–present)	Somalia  United States  United Kingdom  Denmark  Netherlands  Spain  Greece  Germany  Belgium  Canada  Italy  Portugal  Turkey  Norway  Australia  India  Japan  New Zealand  Saudi Arabia  Ukraine  South Korea	Somali Pirates	Ongoing NATO operations being conducted.
Libyan Civil War (2011)	Anti-Gaddafi forces  United States  United Kingdom  France  Denmark  Netherlands  Italy  Canada several Arab League states Sweden	Libyan Arab Jamahiriya: Armed forces Pro-Gaddafi Militia Foreign mercenaries	Victory Fall of Gaddafi regime Muammar Gaddafi killed National Transitional Council take control
Military intervention against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (2014–present)	United States  United Kingdom  Iraq Syrian Opposition  Australia  Belgium  Canada  Denmark  France  Germany  Italy  Netherlands  New Zealand  Norway  Portugal  Spain  Turkey  Bahrain  Jordan  Morocco  Qatar  Saudi Arabia  United Arab Emirates  Egypt  Libya  Nigeria  Cameroon  Chad  Niger	Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant Boko Haram al-Nusra Front Khorasan Ahrar ash-Sham	Ongoing Operation Inherent Resolve is in play. 2014 Iraqi intervention against ISIL Airstrikes on ISIL and al-Qaeda affiliates positions in Iraq and Syria Multinational humanitarian effort In mid 2014, the United States launched a rescue mission in Syria in attempt to rescue James Foley and other hostages being held by ISIL. Arming and support for local ground forces 2 American journalists, 1 American humanitarian supporter, 1 American oil worker, 2 British humanitarian supporters, and 1 French tourist executed by ISIL. American-led intervention in Syria Spillover of the Syrian Civil War

References

1. Hrushevsky (2003), pp. 327ff.
2. Joined the Confederation of the Rhine on 11 December 1806.
3. Joined the Confederation of the Rhine on 11 December 1806.
4. President Barack Obama Speaks With VICE News