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Group: Breton people
People: Robert Schumann
Topic: Anglo-Dutch War, Fourth
Location: Salamis Cyprus

Anglo-Dutch War, Fourth

Years: 1780 - 1784

The Fourth Anglo-Dutch War is a conflict between the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Dutch Republic.

The war, motivated by imperial competition, is a disaster for the Netherlands, whose republic is reduced to a Prussian puppet.As well as being the fourth in a series of Anglo-Dutch Wars, it is also considered as being part of the wider American War of Independence.

“The longer you can look back, the farther you can look forward...This is not a philosophical or political argument—any oculist will tell you this is true. The wider the span, the longer the continuity, the greater is the sense of duty in individual men and women, each contributing their brief life's work to the preservation..."

― Winston S. Churchill, Speech (March 2, 1944)