Rise and Fall of the Dutch Colonial Empire

Among the colonial empires of the past, the Dutch one is in many ways unlike the others. The Netherlands did not seek to expand its colonies, usually sticking to coastal areas. Looking at the modern map of the world, you can see many toponyms left over from the Dutch colonial past.
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[@Robert-um3dz]

Imagine if Europe had been united during this time .

[@Hansjoh21]

Destroying the entire fleet of the English (second Algo-Dutch war) is called a 'draw' nowadays, oh my...

[@DenUitvreter]

The Dutch Golden Age, by Dutch definition a 100-yearish period, is considered to be from the 1570's to 1672. It's material goldenness came from the invention of the saw windmill and the first modern capitalistic infrastructure keeping interests low. The Anglo Dutch wars started because of the European trade, where the British couldn't compete while the Dutch Republic advocated mare liberum, free trade, because they had a bigger merchant fleet than the rest of Europe combined. There were draws but the British got their ass kicked hard too. The VOC and WIC were founded by government primarily to take the fight witg Spain and Portugal overseas, with trade financing and supporting the military presence far away through a network of ports. The Dutch invaded England in 1688 and took the throne to keep it from being an ally to France and attacking the Dutch Republic together ever again, and the subsequent modernizing of it's economy made the British traders more competitive. Due to it's size, the British Empire started taking over, slowly, and started taking most of the heat of geopolitics. The Dutch did not care, as the first modern capitalists they could just as easily get ROI on their huge piles of money through London as the financial centre. But rentiers tend not to make happen things happen a lot and out of the high pressure cooker of all powers being out for your destruction, a lacklustre 18th century followed. Hudson was hired by the VOC, because he should find a passage to the East Indies. The WIC got the Dutch monopoly on the Atlantic trade only later.

[@suryakumarsharna3074]

Great video

[@selcukkocoglu936]

02:00 what movie is this footage from?

[@jamesvandemark2086]

And my family wound up in New Netherlands, and a few other places!

[@KilapnF]

Un imperio que tuvo un rol importante en el exterminio de millones de esclavos. Especialmente en Indonesia y en África.

[@BajanEnglishman51]

You know the dutch tried to conquer Barbados but failed

[@Hype409]

Greek and Turkish Forces

[@salazarway]

Wait, the Portuguese were too weak to the EIC? The difference of thecnologie between each other back then, where so huge, that even with much less manpower and navy numbers in the end of cen.XVI the Portuguese literally smashed the Dutch piracy. No wonder why the natives where much more close to the Portuguese then and now. :')

[@tidmouthsheds4596]

What is the EIC? You mean the voc?

[@julianschmahl8267]

The Dutch were the first colonial empire

[@iimorikun]

Lmao, What about Ghengis Khan? Alexander the great? The Roman Empire? The ottoman Empire?

[@vieiradosreismariadelurdes9105]

The Dutch were NOT the First.