When we talk about India and the british empire, often we discuss all the thing that the british changed in India, and how those things modified the country. How is that true for Indonesia? What type of influence had the dutch on modern day life, culture and organization?
Thats a rather negative view of the Dutch-Belgian contribution to Waterloo. It were mainly Dutch and Belgian units that held the vital points at Quatre Bras and at Waterloo they were largely responsible for halting the Imperial Guard. Sorry how am I being negative about the Dutch-Belgian troops?
William did have the habit of promoting Dutch members of his inner circle to prominent court positions in England which naturally irritated the natives. One practical division of power between the two states was that an Englishman would always assume command of a joint English/Dutch fleet while the Dutch had seniority within the land army.
In the early years of the East India Company, it’s main arrival was the Dutch East India company. Ironically they were both Protestant powers but they found themselves to be competing with each other in Asia… In these days the English were out gunned and outnumbered by the Dutch.
Just joined the forum. Great resource and pleasant to read some of the material posted! Back in the heyday of "the Dutch east India company" when there was a lot of European commerce going on in what is now Indonesia, a great deal of shipping came across the Indian ocean before heading north (...
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