There were many challenges to the security of the Dutch republic from 1650-1713. The Anglo-Dutch Wars with England from 1652-54, 1664-67 took a major toll

on the security of the Dutch republic. These wars resulted from the first of the English

Navigation Acts, which required that English goods be transported on English ships, which was

a huge boost to the development of an English merchant marine. By this time, there was a great

commercial rivalry between the English and the Dutch. According to Document 1, it is seen that

many naval battles were fought along the coasts of both England and the Dutch republic. In

these little wars, England was relatively successful. Shown in Document 3, the Dutch seized only 500 ships from the English, while the English siezed be

that had been done to the military of the Dutch republic marked its decline.

mainly due to the rise of competition with England, and England's commercialization. But with the Treaty of Breda in 1667, the Netherlands gained trade privileges and had its possession of

There were also many challenges to the unity of the Dutch republic. The results of the Dutch Wars were taking their toll on the Netherlands, and militarily, the republic was weakening. In Document 4, Sir George Downing, an English ambassador to the Dutch republic had his own views on the situation in the Netherlands. "The government of the Dutch republic is a shattered and divided thing:", he goes on to say, " the province Holland alone must expect to bear the financial burden in a war because the other provinces are poor."

England. By the mid to late seventeenth century, England was becoming a formidable economic rival to the Netherlands, mainly due to the Navigation Acts and colonization in the Western World. The competition between England and the Netherlands took a heavy toll on the republic. According to Document 2, a graph of the Baltic Sea Trade shows that in 1645, about 77 percent of voyages were by Dutch ships, but by 1695, only about 30 percent of the voyages were made by Dutch ships. A steady decrease between 1645 and 1695 is shown. This is

Englishmen resident in the Dutch republic, "Dutch armies, allied with the English in this war

Along with Sir George Downing, many other English people viewed the Netherlands as a weak, and divided republic. But in 1668, the Netherlands reached a peak of political power when it allied itself with Sweden and England, known as the Triple Alliance, and it forced Louis XIV to halt the War of Devolution against Spain. Louis XIV took revenge in the third of the Dutch Wars. Jan de Witt, the

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