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 (c. 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.

List

Conflict and dateCombatant 1Combatant 2Result
Eighty Years' War[a]
(c. 1566–1648)[1]
Geuzen and Orangist troops (c. 1566–1570s)[b]

United Provinces (c. 1576–1580s)[c]

Dutch Republic (1581/8–1648)

Allies:

Kingdom of England (1585–1604, 1625–30)
Kingdom of France (1595–8, 1635–48)
Duchy of Bouillon (1593–5)

Spanish Empire (incl. Habsburg Netherlands)

Portuguese Empire (1580–1640)
Austrian Habsburgs (15981621)
Allies:
Prince-Bishopric of Liège (1595)

Dutch–Portuguese War
(1601–1661)
 Dutch Republic
  • Native allies
 Portugal
  • Native allies

Spanish Empire

* Dutch victory in Ghana, Malacca, Sri Lanka, Taiwan and Indonesia
* Portuguese victory in Brazil, Angola, East Africa and Macau
* Both sides claim victory in India
Beaver Wars
1609–1701
Iroquois League

Supported by:
 England
Dutch Republic

* HuronIndecisive
Ternatean–Portuguese conflicts
1530–1605 (intermittently)
Sultanate of Ternate
Dutch East India Company (from 1599)
Portuguese Empire
Spanish Empire
Sultanate of Tidore
Victory
Ming–Qing War
(1618-1683)
Victory
Uskok War
(1615-1617)
 Republic of Venice

 Dutch Republic
 England

 Holy Roman Empire

Kingdom of Croatia
Spain

Victory
  • Many Uskok pirates executed or exiled; Austrian garrison installed to check Uskoks.
Dutch-Barbary war (1618-1622)  Dutch Republic  Ottoman Algeria
Tunisia
Victory
Dutch conquest of the Banda Islands
(1609–1621)
 Dutch East India Company (VOC)
 Dutch Republic
Bandanese fighters
East India Company
 Kingdom of England
Victory
Expedition to Algiers (1624)  Dutch Republic  Ottoman AlgeriaVictory
Spanish-Siam War (1624–1636)[2][3][4]  Siam

Dutch East India Company

Iberian UnionVictory
Siege of Batavia
(1628–1629)
 Dutch Republic  Mataram SultanateVictory
  • The Mataram siege repelled
Dutch pacification campaign on Formosa
(1635–1636)
 Dutch RepublicNatives of Mattau, Bakloan, Soulang, Taccariang and TevorangVictory
  • Increased Dutch area of control
Lamey Island Massacre
(1636)
 Dutch RepublicTaiwanese militiaVictory
Shimabara Rebellion
(1637–1638)
Tokugawa shogunate
 Dutch Republic
Christian peasant and ronin rebelsVictory
Cambodian–Dutch War (1643-1644)  Dutch East India Company  Kingdom of CambodiaDefeat
Kieft's War
(1643–1645)[5]
 Dutch RepublicLenapeVictory
Torstenson War
(1643–1645)
 Sweden
 Dutch Republic
 Denmark-NorwayVictory
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 RepublicGuo Huaiyi's peasant armyVictory
Portuguese Restoration War
(1640-1668)
 Portugal
 Dutch Republic (1641-1648)
 France (1641–1659)
 England (1662–1668)
SpainVictory
  • 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)
 Dutch Republic
other allies
Sultanate of Ternate
other allies
Victory
First Anglo-Dutch War
(1652–1654)
 Dutch Republic  Commonwealth of EnglandInconclusive[e]
Peach War
(1655)[5]
 Dutch RepublicLenapeDefeat
  • Outlying Dutch settlements ordered to garrison at Fort Amsterdam
  • Staten Island abandoned but eventually retaken and equipped with better defenses.
Dano-Swedish War (1658–1660) Denmark–Norway
 Dutch Republic
 SwedenVictory
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)[6]
Grand Duchy of Lithuania
 Wallachia
 Moldavia
Victory
First Khoikhoi–Dutch Wars
(1659–1660)
 Dutch RepublicKhoikhoi militiaVictory
Esopus Wars
(1659–1663)[5]
Dutch settlers
Mohawk
EsopusVictory
Siege of Fort Zeelandia
(1661-1662)
Dutch East India Company Koxinga's Ming LoyalistsDefeat
Dano-Dutch War
(1661-1665)
Dutch West India Company  Denmark–Norway
 England
Defeat
First Tondano War
(1661–1664)
 Dutch RepublicMinahasan peoplesVictory
Trịnh–Nguyễn War
(1627–1672)-(1774–1777)
Trịnh lords
 Dutch East India Company
Tây Sơn rebellion
Nguyễn lords
Portugal
Victory
Makassar War
(1666–1669)
 Dutch RepublicSultanate of GowaVictory
Second Anglo-Dutch War
(1665–1667)
 Dutch Republic
Denmark
 France
 England
Bishopric of Münster
Victory
Dutch-Zamorin Conflicts
(1666-1758)
Dutch East India CompanyZamorin
 United Kingdom
Portuguese Empire
English East India Company
Victory
Kandyan-Dutch War (1670-1675)
 Dutch Republic Kingdom of Kandy
 France
Victory
Third Anglo-Dutch War
(1672–1674)
 Dutch Republic
Denmark-Norway
 England
 France
Bishopric of Münster
Electorate of Cologne
Victory
Franco-Dutch War
(1672–1678)
 Dutch Republic
 Holy Roman Empire (from 1673)
 Spain (from 1673)
Brandenburg-Prussia (from 1673)
Lorraine (from 1673)
Denmark–Norway (from 1674)
 England (1678)
 France
 England (1672–74)
Münster (1672–1674)
Cologne (1672–1674)
Swedish Empire (from 1674)
Second Khoikhoi–Dutch Wars
(1673–1677)
 Dutch Republic
  • Khoikhoi allies
Khoikhoi militiaVictory
Trunajaya rebellion
(1674–1680)
Mataram Sultanate

Dutch East India Company (VOC)

  • VOC's Indonesian allies
Rebel forces
Makassarese itinerant fighters

Rival claimants to Mataram throne (after 1677)

Victory
Scanian War
(1675-1679)
Denmark-Norway
 Dutch Republic
Brandenburg-Prussia
 Habsburg Monarchy Supported by:
Scanian insurgents
Swedish Empire
Kingdom of France
Nine Years' War
(1688–1697)
 Dutch Republic
 England
 Holy Roman Empire
Spanish Empire
 Duchy of Savoy
 Scotland
 France
Jacobites
Siamese revolution of 1688
(1688)
Phetracha and various Siamese lords
 Dutch Republic
Prasat Thong dynasty
 Kingdom of France
Victory
Williamite War in Ireland
(1689-1691)
Williamites
 Dutch Republic
Jacobites
 France
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)
 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)
First Javanese War of Succession
(1704–1707)
 Dutch Republic  Mataram SultanateVictory
Dutch-Algerian war(1715-1726)[7]  Dutch Republic  Ottoman AlgeriaVictory
War of the Quadruple Alliance
(1718–1720)
 Great Britain
 France
Austria
 Dutch Republic
SpainVictory
Jacobite rising of 1719  Great Britain
 Dutch Republic
Jacobites
Spain
Victory
Second Javanese War of Succession
(1719–1723)
 Dutch Republic
 Mataram Sultanate
Rebel PrincesVictory
1740 Batavia massacre
(1740)
 Dutch Republic
Native Indonesians allies
Chinese Indonesian militiaMilitary victory
Political failure
War of the Austrian Succession
(1740–1748)
 Dutch Republic (1744–48)
 Habsburg Monarchy
 Great Britain
Hanover
 Saxony (1743–45)
Sardinia (1742–48)
 Russia (1741–43, 1748)
 France
 Prussia (1740–42, 1744–45)
Spain
 Bavaria (1741–45)
 Saxony (1741–42)
Sardinia (1741–42)
 Genoa (1745–48)
Sweden (1741–43)
Duchy of Modena
Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle
Travancore–Dutch War
(1741–1757)
 Dutch Republic
Kingdom of Cochin
Kingdom of Travancore
Maratha Empire
Mysore
Military Stalemate
Java War (1741–43)
(1741–1743)
 Dutch RepublicJoint army of Chinese and JavaneseVictory
Battle of Penfui
(1749)
 Dutch Republic
Timorese allies
Topasses
Timorese allies
Victory
Third Javanese War of Succession
(1749–1757)
Mataram Sultanate
(until 1755)
 Dutch Republic
Yogyakarta Sultanate (from 1755)
Surakarta Sunanate
(from 1755)
Anti-Dutch rebelsVictory
Cirebon War (1753–1773)  Dutch Republic Cirebon SultanateVictory
Berbice slave uprising
(1763–1764)
 Dutch Republic
Arawak and Carib allies
Army of the Negroes of BerbiceVictory
Kandyan-Dutch war (1764-1766)  Dutch Republic Kingdom of KandyVictory
Dutch-Moroccan War (1775-1777)  Dutch Republic Sultanate of MoroccoVictory
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

Mixed results for the Dutch Republic
First Xhosa-Dutch War
(1779–1781)
 Dutch RepublicXhosa militiaVictory
Fourth Anglo-Dutch War
(1780–1784)
 Dutch Republic
 Kingdom of France
 Great BritainDefeat
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
Kettle War
(8 October 1784)
 Dutch Republic Habsburg monarchyStatus quo ante bellum
Patriot–Orangist battles
(c. 1786–1787)
Orangists PatriotsInconclusive
Prussian invasion of Holland
(late 1787)
Kingdom of Prussia
Orangists
States of Holland
Patriots
Prussian–Orangist victory
  • Orange Restoration
Second Xhosa-Dutch War
(1789–1793)
 Dutch RepublicXhosa militiaVictory
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
First Bone WarSecond expedition to PalembangFirst expedition to PalembangInvasion of Java (1811)Invasion of the Spice IslandsJava campaign of 1806–07Battle of BlaauwbergBattle of PenfuiSiamese revolution of 1688Siamese revolution of 1688Esopus WarsKieft's WarJava WarBombardment of Algiers (1816)Ashanti–Fante WarBattle of SurinameAmerican Revolutionary WarTravancore–Dutch WarPeach Tree WarDutch pacification campaign on FormosaExpedition to the West Coast of BorneoXhosa WarsXhosa WarsXhosa WarsXhosa WarsXhosa WarsJava War (1741–1743)Khoikhoi–Dutch WarsKhoikhoi–Dutch WarsGuo Huaiyi rebellionShimabara RebellionSiege of BataviaPadri War1740 Batavia massacreSinhalese–Portuguese WarDutch conquest of the Banda IslandsDutch conquest of the Banda IslandsHundred DaysFrench invasion of RussiaKettle WarJavanese Wars of SuccessionTrunajaya rebellionDutch–Portuguese WarWar of the Sixth CoalitionWar of the Fifth CoalitionFlanders campaignWar of the First CoalitionWar of the Austrian SuccessionNine Years' WarSecond Anglo-Dutch WarSecond Anglo-Dutch WarFranco-Spanish War (1635–1659)Franco-Spanish War (1635–1659)War of the Fourth CoalitionWar of the Third CoalitionPatriottentijdWar of the Quadruple AllianceThird Anglo-Dutch WarFranco-Dutch WarThirty Years' WarSecond Northern WarSecond Northern WarLuxemburg campaignsWar of the Second CoalitionSecond Anglo-Mysore WarFourth Anglo-Dutch WarWar of the Spanish SuccessionWar of DevolutionFirst Anglo-Dutch WarFirst Anglo-Dutch WarEighty Years' War

Sovereign Principality of the United NetherlandsFirst French EmpireKingdom of Holland

Dutch RepublicHabsburg Netherlands
Mali WarObano rebellionSouth Sulawesi expeditions of 1905Mandor rebellionDutch Gold Coast expedition of 1869–70Second Bone WarDutch–Ahanta WarJava WarLibyan Civil War (2011)Operation TrikoraDutch–Venezuelan crisis of 1908Boxer RebellionXhosa WarsBanjarmasin WarXhosa WarsXhosa WarsXhosa WarsOperation AtalantaMakassar UprisingDutch intervention in Bali (1906)Shimonoseki campaignDutch intervention in northern Bali (1848)Padri WarOperation Ocean ShieldInvasion of AmbonDutch intervention in Bali (1908)Dutch intervention in Lombok and KarangasemDutch intervention in Bali (1849)Dutch intervention in northern Bali (1846)Kosovo WarAPRA coup d'étatCommunist Party of Indonesia#1926 revolt

Edi ExpeditionNias ExpeditionSecond Sumatran expeditionFirst Sumatran expeditionDutch military intervention against ISILIraq WarGulf WarIndonesian National RevolutionPedir ExpeditionJambi uprisingPalembang Highlands ExpeditionsDutch expedition on the west coast of SumatraWar in Afghanistan (2001–present)Bosnian WarKorean WarWorld War IIAceh WarPasoemah ExpeditionExpedition against the Chinese in MontradoBelgian RevolutionKingdom of the NetherlandsKingdom of the Netherlands

  •   War of succession
  •   War of conquest (territorial control)
  •   Religious war (including the European wars of religion)
  •   Economic war (including colonial wars)
  •   Revolt or rebellion (political)


Notes

References

Bibliography

  • Groenveld, Simon; Leeuwenberg, Huib (2020). De Tachtigjarige Oorlog. Opstand en consolidatie in de Nederlanden (ca. 1560–1650). Derde editie (in Dutch). Zutphen: Walburg Pers. p. 750. ISBN 9789462495661. (e-book; original publication 2008; in cooperation with M. Mout and W. Zappey)