Second Anglo-Dutch War

For nearly a century, the Portuguese controlled the spice before being kicked out of the islands by the Dutch, whose famous East Indies battles with the British helped usher in the modern world.

To end the Second Anglo-Dutch War in 1667 at the Treaty of Breda, Britain agreed to give the Netherlands the last spice island in their possession, a speck of sand and jungle called Rhun, in exchange for an island of utter unimportance off the coast of North America, Manhattan.

I have heard this story so many times I could tell it myself, word for word.

But I am rather loving this nutmeg and reach for a second to suck on.

In 1664, four English frigates sailed into the harbor of New Amsterdam and ordered the Dutch to surrender the city.

They did so bloodlessly, although the event did spark the Second Anglo-Dutch War.

In June 1665, New Amsterdam was reincorporated under English law and renamed New York City.

Spain, whose early discovery of the New World gave them an advantage in colonizing South America and the Caribbean, began settling in what would become the American Southeast.

Although attendance was considerably lower than in earlier sessions, and Parliament only remained in Oxford until 31 October, several measures were passed.

Charles was granted a further £1.25 million in taxation, helping to finance the government during the Second Anglo-Dutch War, and legislation known as the Five Mile Act against religious non-conformists was passed.

Parliament's relocation to Oxford demonstrated the practical effects of the Great Plague on the institutions of government.

Although the epidemic began to decline the following year, due to a particularly cold winter and the later impact of the Great Fire of London, it killed nearly a quarter of the city's population.

Uh, and these things really helped the Royal African company become ultimately the largest single contributor to the transatlantic traffic in enslaved African people of any nation, uh, transporting roughly one hundred and eighty thousand enslaved African people from West Africa, mainly to Barbados and Jamaica.

The other thing I want to ask about during those years, particularly these are sort of sixteen sixty-five to sixteen sixty-seven is the second Anglo-Dutch war.

What is the link between the sort of the foreign policy strategy that's being followed by the country and the commercial and military ambitions of the company itself?

Yeah, this is really interesting, and it's the first, uh, example of, of a few of the slave trade and England's involvement in it being the reason why the state actually establishes, you know, uh, wars or, or resolves peace treaties.

Again, you know, really developing that notion that the slave trade is, is often central to the government's policy.

The second Anglo-Dutch war, as with the first, was really about placement of the tension between Catholic and Protestant nations with a straightforwardly economic tension between two Protestant nations.

And the, the stakes of these conflicts was, was very, very high.

Often these, uh, wars were fought internationally.

He was released only after he apologized to the furious king.

He hoped to redeem himself by serving in the Second Dutch War.

He became a battlefield hero, and upon his return, the king appointed him a gentleman of the bedchamber.

Elizabeth was also impressed, and she eloped with John.