Conflict and date |
Combatant 1 |
Combatant 2 |
Result
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Eighty Years' War[lower-alpha 1] (c. 1566–1648) |
Geuzen and Orangist troops (c. 1566–1570s)[lower-alpha 2]
United Provinces (c. 1576–1580s)[lower-alpha 3]
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 (1598–1621)
Allies:
Prince-Bishopric of Liège (1595) |
|
Dutch–Portuguese War (1601–1661) |
Dutch Republic
|
Portugal
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 |
* Huron
|
Indecisive |
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 Algeria |
Victory |
Spanish-Siam War (1624–1636)[2][3][4] |
Siam
Dutch East India Company |
Iberian Union
|
Victory
|
Siege of Batavia (1628–1629) |
Dutch Republic |
Mataram Sultanate |
Victory
- The Mataram siege repelled
|
Dutch pacification campaign on Formosa (1635–1636) |
Dutch Republic |
Natives of Mattau, Bakloan, Soulang, Taccariang and Tevorang |
Victory
- Increased Dutch area of control
|
Lamey Island Massacre (1636) |
Dutch Republic |
Taiwanese militia |
Victory |
Shimabara Rebellion (1637–1638) |
Tokugawa shogunate Dutch Republic |
Christian peasant and ronin rebels |
Victory
|
Cambodian–Dutch War (1643-1644) |
Dutch East India Company |
Kingdom of Cambodia |
Defeat |
Kieft's War (1643–1645)[5] |
Dutch Republic |
Lenape |
Victory |
Torstenson War (1643–1645) |
Sweden Dutch Republic |
Denmark-Norway |
Victory |
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 Republic |
Guo Huaiyi's peasant army |
Victory |
Portuguese Restoration War (1640-1668) |
Portugal Dutch Republic (1641-1648) France (1641–1659) England (1662–1668) |
Spain |
Victory
- 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 England |
Inconclusive[lower-alpha 5]
|
Peach War (1655)[5] |
Dutch Republic |
Lenape |
Defeat
- 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 |
Sweden |
Victory |
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 Republic |
Khoikhoi militia |
Victory |
Esopus Wars (1659–1663)[5] |
Dutch settlers Mohawk |
Esopus |
Victory |
Siege of Fort Zeelandia (1661-1662) |
Dutch East India Company |
Koxinga's Ming Loyalists |
Defeat |
Dano-Dutch War (1661-1665) |
Dutch West India Company |
Denmark–Norway England |
Defeat |
First Tondano War (1661–1664) |
Dutch Republic |
Minahasan peoples |
Victory |
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 Republic |
Sultanate of Gowa |
Victory
|
Second Anglo-Dutch War (1665–1667) |
Dutch Republic Denmark France |
England Bishopric of Münster |
Victory
|
Dutch-Zamorin Conflicts (1666-1758) |
Dutch East India Company |
Zamorin 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 militia |
Victory |
Trunajaya rebellion (1674–1680) |
Mataram Sultanate
Dutch East India Company (VOC)
|
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 Sultanate |
Victory |
Dutch-Algerian war(1715-1726)[7] |
Dutch Republic |
Ottoman Algeria |
Victory |
War of the Quadruple Alliance (1718–1720) |
Great Britain France Austria Dutch Republic |
Spain |
Victory
|
Jacobite rising of 1719 |
Great Britain Dutch Republic |
Jacobites Spain |
Victory |
Second Javanese War of Succession (1719–1723) |
Dutch Republic Mataram Sultanate |
Rebel Princes |
Victory |
1740 Batavia massacre (1740) |
Dutch Republic Native Indonesians allies |
Chinese Indonesian militia |
Military 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 Republic |
Joint army of Chinese and Javanese |
Victory |
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 rebels |
Victory
|
Cirebon War (1753–1773) |
Dutch Republic
|
Cirebon Sultanate |
Victory |
Berbice slave uprising (1763–1764) |
Dutch Republic Arawak and Carib allies |
Army of the Negroes of Berbice |
Victory |
Kandyan-Dutch war (1764-1766) |
Dutch Republic
|
Kingdom of Kandy |
Victory
|
Dutch-Moroccan War (1775-1777) |
Dutch Republic |
Sultanate of Morocco |
Victory |
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 Republic |
Xhosa militia |
Victory |
Fourth Anglo-Dutch War (1780–1784) |
Dutch Republic Kingdom of France |
Great Britain |
Defeat
|
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 monarchy
|
Status quo ante bellum
|
Patriot–Orangist battles (c. 1786–1787) |
Orangists |
Patriots |
Inconclusive
|
Prussian invasion of Holland (late 1787) |
Kingdom of Prussia Orangists |
States of Holland Patriots |
Prussian–Orangist victory
|
Second Xhosa-Dutch War (1789–1793) |
Dutch Republic |
Xhosa militia |
Victory |
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
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