List of wars involving the Netherlands

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

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Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Results
Eighty Years' War
(15681648)
 United Provinces
 England
Nassau
 France
Spain Spanish Empire
 Holy Roman Empire
Victory
Dutch–Portuguese War
(16011661)
 Dutch Republic  Portugal
Spain Spanish Empire
Dutch victory in the East
Portuguese victory in South America and Africa
Trịnh–Nguyễn War
(16271672)
Trịnh lords
 Dutch Republic
Nguyễn lords Indecisive
Siege of Batavia
(16281629)
 Dutch Republic  Mataram Sultanate Victory
  • The Mataram siege repelled
Dutch pacification campaign on Formosa
(16351636)
 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
Sinhalese–Portuguese War
(1538-1640)
 Kingdom of Sitawaka
 Kingdom of Kandy
 Dutch East India Company (from 1638)
 Portuguese Empire

 Kingdom of Kotte

Victory
Guo Huaiyi Rebellion
(1652)
 Dutch Republic
Taiwanese aborigines
Guo Huaiyi's peasant army Victory
First Anglo-Dutch War
(16521654)
 Dutch Republic  Commonwealth of England Defeat
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
(16551660)
Poland
(Poland-Lithuania)
Denmark Denmark–Norway
 Habsburg Monarchy
Russia (1656–58)
Crimean Khanate
Brandenburg Brandenburg-Prussia (1655–56, 1657–60)
 Dutch Republic
Sweden Swedish Empire
Brandenburg Brandenburg-Prussia (1656–57)
Transylvania Principality of Transylvania
Ukrainian Cossacks (1657)[1]
Grand Duchy of Lithuania
 Wallachia
 Moldavia
Victory
Esopus Wars
(16591663)
Dutch settlers
Iroquois Confederacy
Esopus tribe of Lenape Indians
Susquehannock and allied tribes
Victory
Second Anglo-Dutch War
(16651667)
 Dutch Republic
Denmark Denmark
 France
 England
Bishopric of Münster
Victory
Third Anglo-Dutch War
(16721674)
 Dutch Republic
Denmark Denmark-Norway
 England
 France
Bishopric of Münster
Electorate of Cologne
Victory
Nine Years' War
(16881697)
 Dutch Republic
 England
 Holy Roman Empire
Spanish Empire
 Duchy of Savoy
Swedish Empire (until 1691)
 Scotland
 France
Jacobites
Victory
War of the Spanish Succession
(17011714)
 Dutch Republic
Austrian Empire Austrian monarchy
Kingdom of Prussia Prussia
Kingdom of England England (until 1707)
Kingdom of Great Britain Great Britain (from 1707)
Holy Roman Empire Holy Roman Empire
Savoy Piedmont-Savoy
Habsburg Spain
 Portugal
 France
Spain Spanish monarchy
Bavaria (~1704)
Cologne
Mantua Mantua (~1708)
Political victory for Spain loyal to Philip
Military victory for Spain loyal to Charles
First Javanese War of Succession
(17041707)
 Dutch Republic  Mataram Sultanate Victory
Second Javanese War of Succession
(17191723)
 Dutch Republic
 Mataram Sultanate
Rebel Princes Victory
Java War (1741–43)
(17411743)
 Dutch Republic Joint army of Chinese and Javanese Victory
Trịnh–Nguyễn War
(17741775)
Trịnh lords
Later Lê Dynasty
 Dutch Republic
Nguyễn lords Victory
American Revolutionary War
(17751783)
 United States
Kingdom of France France
Spain Spain
 Netherlands

Mysore
Oneida
Tuscarora
Watauga Association
Catawba
Lenape
Choctaw

 Great Britain
Loyalists
Holy Roman Empire German Auxiliaries

Iroquois
Onondaga
Mohawk
Cayuga
Seneca
Cherokee Nation Cherokee

Victory
Fourth Anglo-Dutch War
(17801784)
 Dutch Republic
 Kingdom of France
 Great Britain Defeat
Second Anglo-Mysore War
(17801784)
 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
(17921797)
 Holy Roman Empire
Habsburg Monarchy Austria
 Prussia (until 1795)
 Great Britain
Kingdom of France French Royalists
 Spain (until 1795)
 Portugal
 Sardinia (until 1796)
 Naples and Sicily
Other Italian states
 Dutch Republic
 Kingdom of the French (until 1792)
French First Republic French Republic (from 1792)
 Spain (from 1796)
 Batavian Republic (from 1795)
Kingdom of Italy (Napoleonic) French satellite states
Polish Legions (from 1797)
Regime change, Victory for the Batavian Republic
War of the Second Coalition
(1799-1802)
France French Republic
 Spain
Poland Polish Legions
Denmark Denmark–Norway

French client republics:

Holy Roman Empire Austria
 Russia
 Great Britain
Kingdom of France 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)
France French Empire
Netherlands Batavia
Kingdom of Italy (Napoleonic) Italy
Kingdom of Italy (Napoleonic) Etruria
 Spain
Bavaria Bavaria
Kingdom of Württemberg Württemberg
 Austrian Empire
 Russian Empire
Kingdom of the Two Sicilies Naples and Sicily
Portugal
 Great Britain
 Sweden
Victory

Treaty of Pressburg

Padri War
(1803-1838)
Adats
 Netherlands
Padris Victory
War of the Fourth Coalition
(1806-1807)
France French Empire
French satellites:
 Prussia
 Russia
 United Kingdom
Saxony[3]
 Sweden
Sicily
Victory

Treaties of Tilsit

War of the Fifth Coalition
(1809)
France French Empire
French satellites:
 Austria
Hungary
Tyrol (in rebellion against Bavaria)
 United Kingdom
 Spain
Kingdom of the Two Sicilies Sicily
 Sardinia
Black Brunswickers
Victory

Treaty of Schönbrunn

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
France 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
Belgian Revolution
(1830-1831)
 United Kingdom of the Netherlands Belgian rebels
Supported by:
France 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
Qing dynasty China
Victory
Banjarmasin War
(1859-1863)
 Netherlands Sultanate of Banjarmasin Victory
Shimonoseki Campaign
(1863-1864)
 Netherlands
 British Empire
France 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
Dutch intervention in Lombok and Karangasem
(1894)
 Netherlands
Eastern Sasak
Lombok Mataram
Western Sasak
Victory
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
World War II
(19401945)
 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
Indonesian National Revolution
(19401949)
 Netherlands  Indonesia Dutch military victory
Indonesian political victory
Korean War
(19501953)
 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
(19611962)
 Netherlands  Indonesia
Gulf War
(19901991)
 Kuwait
 United States
 United Kingdom
 Saudi Arabia
 France
 Egypt
 Syria
 Netherlands
Other Allies
Iraq Victory
  • Kuwait regains its independence
Bosnian War
(19921995)
Bosnia and Herzegovina 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
(19981999)
Kosovo Liberation Army
 United States
 United Kingdom
 Netherlands
 France
 Canada
 Denmark
 Germany
 Italy
 Yugoslavia Victory
War in Afghanistan
(20012014)
 Afghanistan
 United States
 United Kingdom
 Canada
 Netherlands
 Germany
 Italy
 France
 Denmark
 Poland
 Romania
 Turkey
 Australia
 Spain
ISAF
Afghanistan Taliban
al-Qaeda
Haqqani network
Hezb-e-Islami Gulbuddin
United Tajik Opposition
IMU
Other groups
Victory
Iraq War
(20032011)
 United States
 United Kingdom
 Iraq after the fall of Saddam Hussein
 Australia
 Poland
 Netherlands
 Denmark
 Iraqi Kurdistan
 Iraq under Saddam Hussein

Sunni insurgents


Shia insurgents

Victory
  • Fall of Ba'athist rule in Iraq
  • Occupation of southern Iraq
  • Dutch withdrawal in 2009, conflict ended in 2011
Operation Ocean Shield
(2009present)
 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
Somalia Somali Pirates Ongoing
  • NATO operations being conducted.
Libyan Civil War
(2011)
Libya Anti-Gaddafi forces
 United States
 United Kingdom
 France
 Denmark
 Netherlands
 Italy
 Canada
Arab League several Arab League states
Sweden Sweden
 Libyan Arab Jamahiriya: Victory
Military intervention against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
(2014present)
 United States
 United Kingdom
 Iraq
Syria 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

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
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