List of wars involving the Netherlands

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This is a list of wars involving the Kingdom of the Netherlands and its predecessor states since 1560. During the first war after 1560, namely the Eighty Years' War (1566–1648), the set of united provinces that would later become the Dutch Republic proclaimed its independence in 1581.

United Provinces (1581–1795)[]

Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Result
Eighty Years' War
(1566–1648)
 United Provinces
 England
 France
Spain Spanish Empire Victory
Dutch–Portuguese War
(1601–1661)
 Dutch Republic
* Native allies
 Portugal
* Native allies
Spain 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
Dutch conquest of the Banda Islands
(1609–1621)
 Dutch Republic Rebel forces of the Banda Islands Victory
  • Dutch forces occupy the Banda Islands.
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)
Flag of the Tokugawa Shogunate.svg Tokugawa shogunate
 Dutch Republic
Christian peasant and ronin rebels Victory
Kieft's War
(1643–1645)
 Dutch Republic Lenape warriors and Algonquian allies Dutch military victory
Dutch political failure
  • Because of the continuing threat by the Algonquians, numerous Dutch settlers returned to the Netherlands, and growth of the colony slowed.
Battle of Fehmarn (1644)  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
  • End of the kingdoms of Kotte, Sitawaka, Jaffna and Raigama
  • End of Portuguese Ceylon
  • Incorporation of parts of Kotte and Sitawaka into the Kingdom of Kandy
  • Capture of Colombo, Galle, Jaffna, Raigama and much of Sitawaka by the Dutch and the establishment of Dutch Ceylon
Guo Huaiyi Rebellion
(1652)
 Dutch Republic
Taiwanese aborigines
Guo Huaiyi's peasant army Victory
First Anglo-Dutch War
(1652–1654)
 Dutch Republic  Commonwealth of England Defeat
Peach Tree War
(1655)
 Dutch Republic Susquehannock and allied tribes Defeat
  • Outlying Dutch settlements ordered to garrison at Fort Amsterdam
  • Staten Island abandoned but eventually retaken and equipped with better defenses.
Second Northern War
(1655–1660)
Poland
(Poland-Lithuania)
Denmark Denmark–Norway
 Habsburg Monarchy
Russia (1656–58)
Gerae-tamga.svg Crimean Khanate
Brandenburg Brandenburg-Prussia (1655–56, 1657–60)
 Dutch Republic
Sweden Swedish Empire
Brandenburg Brandenburg-Prussia (1656–57)
Transylvania Principality of Transylvania
Ukrainian Cossacks (1657)[1]
POL COA Radziwiłł.svg Grand Duchy of Lithuania
 Wallachia
 Moldavia
Victory
  • Scania, Halland, Blekinge, Bohuslän and Ven become Swedish
  • Duchy of Prussia becomes a sovereign state
  • Sweden's sovereignty in Swedish Livonia accepted
  • Loss of New Sweden to the Netherlands
First Khoikhoi–Dutch Wars
(1659–1660)
 Dutch Republic Khoikhoi militia Victory
Esopus Wars
(1659–1663)
Prinsenvlag.svg Dutch settlers
Iroquois Confederacy
Esopus tribe of Lenape Indians
Susquehannock and allied tribes
Victory

(1661–1664)
 Dutch Republic Minahasan peoples Victory
Second Anglo-Dutch War
(1665–1667)
 Dutch Republic
Denmark Denmark
 France
 England
Flag of the Prince-Bishopric of Münster.svg Bishopric of Münster
Victory
Third Anglo-Dutch War
(1672–1674)
 Dutch Republic
Denmark Denmark-Norway
 England
 France
Flag of the Prince-Bishopric of Münster.svg Bishopric of Münster
Black St George's Cross.svg Electorate of Cologne
Victory
  • Treaty of Westminster (1674)
Franco-Dutch War
(1672-1678)
  •  Dutch Republic
  •  Holy Roman Empire (from 1673)
  •  Spain (from 1673)
  • Wappen Mark Brandenburg.png Brandenburg-Prussia (from 1673)
  • Lorraine Lorraine (from 1673)
  • Denmark Denmark–Norway (from 1674)
  •  England (1678)
Defeat
  • Treaties of Nijmegen
  • Large French territorial gains at expense of anti-French Alliance (Franche-Comté and territories in the Spanish Netherlands)
  • France returns occupied Dutch territoris of Maastricht and Principality of Orange in exchange for these gains
Second Khoikhoi–Dutch Wars
(1673–1677)
 Dutch Republic Khoikhoi militia Victory
Trunajaya rebellion
(1674–1680)
Flag of the Sultanate of Mataram.svg Mataram Sultanate

Flag of the Dutch East India Company.svg Dutch East India Company (VOC)

  • VOC's Indonesian allies
Rebel forces
Makassarese itinerant fighters

Rival claimants to Mataram throne (after 1677)

Victory
Nine Years' War
(1688–1697)
 Dutch Republic
 England
 Holy Roman Empire
Flag of Cross of Burgundy.svg Spanish Empire
 Duchy of Savoy
Flag of Sweden.svg Swedish Empire (until 1691)
 Scotland
 France
Jacobite Standard (1745).svg Jacobites
  • Treaty of Ryswick
  • Louis XIV recognises William III of Orange as King of England, Scotland and Ireland.
Siamese revolution of 1688
(1688)
Phetracha and various Siamese lords
 Dutch Republic
  • VOC-Amsterdam.svg Dutch East India Company
Prasat Thong dynasty
 Kingdom of France
  • Kingdom of France French East India Company
Victory
  • Establishment of Ban Phlu Luang dynasty.
  • Expulsion of French troops in Bangkok.
War of the Spanish Succession
(1701–1714)
 Dutch Republic
Austrian Empire Austrian monarchy
Kingdom of Prussia Prussia
Kingdom of England England (until 1707)
Kingdom of Great Britain Great Britain (from 1707)
Holy Roman Empire Holy Roman Empire
Savoy Piedmont-Savoy
Habsburg Spain
 Portugal
 France
Spain Spanish monarchy
Bavaria (~1704)
Cologne
Mantua Mantua (~1708)
  • Treaty of Utrecht (1713)
  • Treaty of Rastatt (1714)
  • Treaty of Baden (1714)
  • Philip is recognised as King of Spain, but once more renounces any claim to the throne of France.
  • The Dutch Republic retains various forts in the Southern Netherlands and annexes a part of Spanish Guelders.
  • Spain and Britain sign the Asiento
  • Spain cedes the Spanish Netherlands, Kingdom of Naples, Duchy of Milan and Sardinia to the Habsburg Monarchy, Sicily to the Duchy of Savoy and Gibraltar and Menorca to Britain
  • France recognizes British sovereignty over Rupert's Land and Newfoundland and cedes Acadia and its half of Saint Kitts to Great Britain.
  • Spain cedes the Colony of Sacramento to the Portuguese Empire
  • The decline of Spanish global power
First Javanese War of Succession
(1704–1707)
 Dutch Republic  Mataram Sultanate 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
  • Governor-General Adriaan Valckenier was arrested by the Dutch government for the atrocity and replaced by Johannes Thedens.
Travancore–Dutch War
(1741–1757)
 Dutch Republic
Kingdom of Cochin
Kingdom of Travancore
Flag of the Maratha Empire.svg Maratha Empire
Mysore
Military Stalemate
Dutch commercial victory
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)
Flag of the Sultanate of Mataram.svg Mataram Sultanate
(until 1755)
 Dutch Republic
Yogyakarta Sultanate (from 1755)
Surakarta Sunanate
(from 1755)
Anti-Dutch rebels Victory
  • End of the Mataram Sultanate
  • Division of Mataram in 3 independent states called Surakarta Sunanate, Yogyakarta Sultanate and Mangkunegaran Palace
  • Raden Mas Said's surrender
Cirebon War (1753–1773)  Dutch Republic
  • VOC-Amsterdam.svg Dutch East India Company
Cirebon Sultanate Victory
American Revolutionary War
(1775–1783)
 United States
Kingdom of France France
Spain Spain
 Netherlands

Mysore
Oneida
Tuscarora
Watauga Association
Catawba
Lenape
Choctaw

 Great Britain
Loyalists
Holy Roman Empire German Auxiliaries

Iroquois
Onondaga
Mohawk
Cayuga
Seneca
Cherokee Nation Cherokee

Victory
  • Treaty of Paris
  • Britain recognizes the independence of the United States of America
  • End of the First British Empire
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
  • Treaty of Paris (1784)
  • Britain gains free trade rights in parts of the Dutch East Indies
  • Dutch cede Negapatnam to Britain.
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
Prussian invasion of Holland
(1787)
Kingdom of Prussia Kingdom of Prussia
Dutch Republic Orangists
Dutch Republic States of Holland
Dutch Republic Patriots
Prussian–Orangist victory
  • Orange Restoration.
Second Xhosa-Dutch War
(1789–1793)
 Dutch Republic Xhosa militia Victory
War of the First Coalition
(1792–1797)
 Holy Roman Empire
Habsburg Monarchy Austria
 Prussia (until 1795)
 Great Britain
Kingdom of France French Royalists
 Spain (until 1795)
 Portugal
 Sardinia (until 1796)
 Naples and Sicily
Other Italian states
 Dutch Republic
 Kingdom of the French (until 1792)
French First Republic French Republic (from 1792)
 Spain (from 1796)
 Batavian Republic (from 1795)
Kingdom of Italy (Napoleonic) French satellite states
POL COA Ciołek.svg Polish Legions (from 1797)
Regime change, Victory for the Batavian Republic
  • Peace of Basel, Treaty of Campo Formio
  • Survival of the French Republic
  • French annexation of the Austrian Netherlands, the Left Bank of the Rhine and other smaller territories
  • Several French client republics established
  • Hostilities resume in 1798 with the formation of a Second Coalition against France

Batavian Republic (1795–1806)[]

Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Result
War of the Second Coalition
(1799-1802)
France French Republic
 Spain
Poland Polish Legions
Denmark Denmark–Norway

French client republics:

  •  Batavian Republic
  •  Helvetic Republic
  • Kingdom of Italy (Napoleonic) Cisalpine Republic
  • Kingdom of Italy (Napoleonic) Roman Republic
  • Kingdom of Italy (Napoleonic) Parthenopaean Republic
Holy Roman Empire Austria
 Russia
 Great Britain
Kingdom of France French Royalists
Portugal Portugal
 Two Sicilies
 Ottoman Empire
Victory

Treaty of Amiens:

  • General French victory
  • Britain recognises the French Republic
  • Cape Colony returned to the Batavian Republic
  • British withdrawal from Egypt
  • French withdrawal from the Papal States
  • Trinidad and Tobago ceded from France
  • Ceylon ceded from the Batavian Republic
Third Xhosa-Dutch War
(1799–1803)
 Dutch Republic Xhosa militia
Khoikhoi militia
Stalemate
  • The Xhosa were allowed to stay in Zuurveld.
War of the Third Coalition
(1803-1806)
France French Empire
Netherlands Batavia
Kingdom of Italy (Napoleonic) Italy
Kingdom of Italy (Napoleonic) Etruria
 Spain
Bavaria Bavaria
Kingdom of Württemberg Württemberg
 Austrian Empire
 Russian Empire
Kingdom of the Two Sicilies Naples and Sicily
Portugal Portugal
 Great Britain
 Sweden
Victory

Treaty of Pressburg

  • Consolidation of the French Empire
  • Dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire
  • Creation of the Confederation of the Rhine
  • Hostilities resume few months later with the formation of a Fourth Coalition against France
Padri War
(1803-1838)
Adats
 Netherlands
Padris Victory

Kingdom of Holland (1806–1810)[]

Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Result
Franco-Swedish War
(1805–1810)
France France
Spain Spanish Empire
Netherlands Holland
Sweden Sweden
 United Kingdom
 Prussia
Victory
Ashanti–Fante War
(1806–1807)
 Ashanti Empire
 Batavian Republic
WLA haa Asafo Flag.jpg Fante Confederacy Victory
War of the Fourth Coalition
(1806–1807)
France French Empire
French satellites:
 Prussia
 Russia
 United Kingdom
Saxony[2]
 Sweden
Flag of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies (1738).svg Sicily
Victory

Treaties of Tilsit

  • Prussia lost one half of its territory
  • Creation of the Duchy of Warsaw
  • Franco-Russian alliance
  • Promulgation of the Continental System
  • Hostilities resume in 1808 with the commencement of the Peninsular War and expanded in 1809 with the formation of a Fifth Coalition against France

(1808–1809)
Netherlands Holland
  • Netherlands Dutch East Indies
Minahasan militia Victory
War of the Fifth Coalition
(1809)
France French Empire
French satellites:
 Austria
Blason louis II de Hongrie.svg Hungary
Tyrol (in rebellion against Bavaria)
 United Kingdom
 Spain
Kingdom of the Two Sicilies Sicily
 Sardinia
Black Brunswickers
Victory

Treaty of Schönbrunn

  • Franco-Austrian Alliance
  • Napoléon marries Marie Louise of Austria
  • Hostilities in the Peninsular War maintained
  • General hostilities across Europe resume in 1812 with the French Invasion of Russia and expand in 1813 with the formation of a Sixth Coalition against France

Sovereign Principality of the United Netherlands (1813–1815)[]

Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Result
War of the Sixth Coalition
(1813–1814)
Sixth Coalition:
  •  Russia (already at war)
  •  United Kingdom (already at war)
  •  Spain (already at war)
  •  Portugal (already at war)
  •  Sweden (3 March)
  •  Mecklenburg-Schwerin (14 March)
  •  Prussia (17 March)
  •  Sardinia
  •  Sicily

After Pläswitz (June–August 1813)

  •  Austria (12 August)
  •  Bavaria (8 Oct.)

After Leipzig (October 1813)

After January 1814

Denmark Denmark

 France

Until January 1814

Victory
  • Napoleon abdicates and is captured
  • Future of the Low Countries determined at Congress of Vienna (1814–15)

United Kingdom of the Netherlands (1815–1839)[]

Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Result
Hundred Days
(1815)

War of the Seventh Coalition

 United Kingdom
 Prussia
Hanover
German Confederation
 Austria
 Russia
 Sweden
 Netherlands
 Spain
Portugal Portugal
 Sardinia
 Kingdom of the Two Sicilies
Tuscany
France French Empire
 Kingdom of Naples
Victory

Treaty of Paris:

  • General French defeat
  • Restoration of the House of Bourbon
  • Abolition of the slave trade (all signatories)
  • ₣100,000,000 compensation from France
Bombardment of Algiers (1816)
 United Kingdom
 United Netherlands
Ottoman Empire Regency of Algiers Victory
  • 3000 slaves freed.
First expedition to Palembang
(1819)
 Dutch Empire Palembang Sultanate

Defeat

Second expedition to Palembang
(1821)
 Dutch Empire Palembang Sultanate Victory
Expedition to the West Coast of Borneo
(1823)
 Dutch Empire Chinese Indonesian rebels Victory
First Bone War
(1824–1825)
 Dutch Empire Sulawesian militia Victory
Java War
(1825-1830)
 Dutch Empire
Pro-Dutch Javanese
Rebel forces of Prince Diponegoro
Chinese mercenaries
Victory
  • Diponegoro deported to Makassar
Belgian Revolution
(1830-1831)
 Dutch Empire Belgian rebels
Supported by:
France France
Defeat
  • The main European powers recognized Belgium's de facto independence from the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
Dutch expedition on the west coast of Sumatra
(1831)
 Dutch Empire  Aceh Sultanate Victory
First Sumatran expedition
(1832)
 United States
 Dutch Empire
Chiefdom of Kuala Batee Victory
Dutch–Ahanta War
(1837-1839)
 Dutch Empire Ahanta Kingdom Victory
  • Ahanta becomes a Dutch protectorate
Second Sumatran expedition
(1838)
 United States
 Dutch Empire
Chiefdom of Kuala Batee Victory

Netherlands (1839–present)[]

Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Result
Dutch intervention in northern Bali
(1846)
 Dutch Empire Buleleng Defeat
Dutch intervention in Bali
(1849-1850)
 Dutch Empire
Lombok
Buleleng
Jembrana
Klungkung
Victory
  • Dutch control of Northern Bali.
Palembang Highlands Expeditions
(1851–1859)
 Dutch Empire Forces of the Sultan of Palembang Victory
Expedition against the Chinese in Montrado
(1854-1855)
 Dutch Empire
Pro-Dutch Indonesians
Pro-Chinese Indonesian rebels
Qing dynasty China
Victory
Nias Expedition
(1855-1864)
 Dutch Empire Nias Victory
Dutch intervention in Bali
(1858)
 Dutch Empire Buleleng rebels Victory
Second Bone War
(1859–1860)
 Dutch Empire Sulawesian militia Victory
Banjarmasin War
(1859–1863)
 Dutch Empire Sultanate of Banjarmasin Victory
Shimonoseki Campaign
(1863–1864)
 Dutch Empire
 British Empire
France French Empire
 United States
Ichimonjimitsuboshi.svg Chōshū Domain Victory
Pasoemah Expedition
(1864–1868)
 Dutch Empire South Sumatra Victory
Dutch Gold Coast expedition of 1869–70
(1869-1870)
 Dutch Empire Local rulers Victory
  • Dutch Gold Coast sold to Britain in 1872
Aceh War
(1873-1904)
 Dutch Empire Flag of the Aceh Sultanate.png Aceh Sultanate
Flag of the Aceh Sultanate.png Acehnese religious ulama
Thai and Chinese mercenaries
Victory
  • Imposition of Dutch rule on Aceh.
  • Aceh is annexed into the Dutch East Indies.

(1878-1907)
 Dutch Empire

Batak Kingdom

Victory
Mandor rebellion
(1884-1885)
 Dutch Empire Flag of Lanfang Republic.svg Lanfang Republic
Dayak and Chinese Indonesian militia
Victory
Jambi uprising
(1885)
 Dutch Empire Jambi Victory
Edi Expedition
(1890)
 Dutch Empire Aceh militia Victory
Dutch intervention in Lombok and Karangasem
(1894)
 Dutch Empire
Eastern Sasak
Lombok Mataram
Western Sasak
Victory
  • Dutch control of Lombok and Karangasem.
Pedir Expedition
(1897-1898)
 Dutch Empire Aceh militia Victory
Siege of the International Legations
part of the Boxer Rebellion
(1900)
 British Empire
 United States
France
 Russia
 Germany
 Italy
 Austria-Hungary
 Japan
 Belgium
 Dutch Empire
 Spain
 Qing Dynasty
Yìhéquán
Victory
[3]
(1900-1907)
 Dutch Empire Peasant rebels
Lone-wolf robbers
arsonists
Victory
[3]
(1902)
 Dutch Empire Marind rebels Victory
[3] (Location: Kalimantan)
(1902-1907)
 Dutch Empire Dayak rebels Victory
Kerinci Expedition
(1903)
 Dutch Empire Kerinci Victory
[3]
(1903)
 Dutch Empire Tribes of Yapen Victory
[3]
(1904)
 Dutch Empire Tidore Victory
South Sulawesi expedition
(1904-1905)
 Dutch Empire Bone
Luwu
Wajo
Victory
Dutch intervention in Bali
(1906)
 Dutch Empire Badung
Tabanan
Klungkung
Victory
  • Dutch control of southern Bali.
Dutch–Venezuelan crisis of 1908
(1908)
 Dutch Empire  Venezuela Victory
  • Overthrow of Cipriano Castro
Dutch intervention in Bali
(1908)
 Dutch Empire Balinese rebels Victory
World War II
(1940–1945)
 Soviet Union
 United States
 United Kingdom
 China
 France
 Poland
 Canada
 Australia
 New Zealand
 India
 South Africa
 Yugoslavia
 Greece
 Denmark
 Norway
 Netherlands
 Belgium
 Luxembourg
 Czechoslovakia
 Brazil
 Mexico
 Ethiopia

 Italy (from 1943)
 Romania (from 1944)
 Bulgaria (from 1944)
 Finland (from 1944)

 Germany
 Japan
 Italy (until 1943)

 Italian Social Republic
(from 23 Sep. 1943)
 Hungary
 Romania (until 1944)
 Bulgaria (until 1944)
 Finland (until 1944)
 Thailand
 Manchukuo
 Mengjiang
 Croatia
 Slovakia

Victory
  • Collapse of the Third Reich
  • Fall of Japanese and Italian Empires
  • Creation of the United Nations
  • Emergence of the United States and the Soviet Union as superpowers
  • Beginning of the Cold War
Indonesian National Revolution
(1940–1949)
 Dutch Empire  Indonesia

Japan Japanese volunteers (from 1946)
Supported by:
 Soviet Union[4][5]

Indonesian political victory
Dutch military victory
[6]
  • Indonesia secured its independence
  • Dutch recognised United States of Indonesia in Dutch-Indonesian Round Table Conference
APRA coup d'état
(1950)
 Indonesia
 Netherlands
Legion of Ratu Adil (APRA) Victory
Korean War
(1950–1953)
 South Korea
 United States
 United Kingdom
 Netherlands
 United Nations
 North Korea
 China
 Soviet Union
Ceasefire
  • Communist invasions of South Korea repelled
  • Subsequent UN invasion of North Korea repelled
  • Subsequent communist invasion of South Korea repelled
Operation Trikora
(1961–1962)
 Dutch Empire  Indonesia
Air and naval support by:
 Soviet Union
Indonesian political victory[7][8]
Military stalemate
[9][7]
Gulf War
(1990–1991)
 Kuwait
 United States
 United Kingdom
 Saudi Arabia
 France
 Egypt
 Syria
 Netherlands
Other Allies
Iraq Victory
  • Kuwait regains its independence
Operation Krivaja '95
(6–11 July 1995)
 Netherlands  Republika Srpska
Serb Volunteer Guard Serb Volunteer Guard
Scorpions Scorpions paramilitary unit

UNA-UNSO
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Police, volunteers and paramilitaries from Yugoslavia
Greece Greek volunteers
Russia Russian volunteers

Defeat
  • Decisive Bosnian Serb victory
  • Beginning of the Srebrenica massacre
Operation Deliberate Force
(30 August – 20 September 1995)
 NATO
 United States
 United Kingdom
 Netherlands
 France
 Germany
 Italy
 France
 Turkey
 Republika Srpska Victory
  • Dayton Accords
  • Internal partition of Bosnia and Herzegovina according to the Dayton Accords
  • Deployment of NATO-led IFOR to oversee the peace agreement
  • Massive civilian casualties for the Bosniak ethnic group
Kosovo War
(1998–1999)
UCK KLA.svg Kosovo Liberation Army
 United States
 United Kingdom
 Netherlands
 France
 Canada
 Denmark
 Germany
 Italy
 FR Yugoslavia Victory
War in Afghanistan
(2001–2021)[10]
 Afghanistan
 United States
 United Kingdom
 Canada
 Netherlands
 Germany
 Italy
 France
 Denmark
 Poland
 Romania
 Turkey
 Australia
 Spain
ISAF-Logo.svg ISAF
Afghanistan Taliban
Flag of al-Qaeda.svg al-Qaeda
Haqqani network
Hezb-e-Islami Gulbuddin
Flag of Jihad.svg United Tajik Opposition
IMU
Other groups
Defeat
  • Fall of Taliban régime
  • Osama bin Laden killed
  • Taliban retakes Kabul
  • Ongoing Taliban insurgency
Iraq War
(2003–2011)
 United States
 United Kingdom
 Iraq after the fall of Saddam Hussein
 Australia
 Poland
 Netherlands
 Denmark
 Iraqi Kurdistan
 Iraq under Saddam Hussein

Sunni insurgents

  • al-Qaeda in Iraq (2004–2006)
  • Islamic State of Iraq (2006–2011)[11]
  • IAILogo.png Islamic Army of Iraq
  • Ansar al-Sunnah

Shia insurgents

Victory
  • Fall of Ba'athist rule in Iraq
  • Occupation of southern Iraq
  • Dutch withdrawal in 2009, conflict ended in 2011
Operation Ocean Shield
(2009–December 15, 2016) [12]
Operation Atalanta
(2009–present)
 EU
 NATO
 Netherlands
Somalia Somali Pirates Victory
  • NATO and EU operations being conducted.
  • Action of 5 April 2010
  • Task Force Barracuda: sabotage of 5 Somali piracy mother ships
Libyan Civil War
(2011)
Libya Anti-Gaddafi forces
 United States
 United Kingdom
 France
 Denmark
 Netherlands
 Italy
 Canada
Arab League several Arab League states
Sweden Sweden
 Libyan Arab Jamahiriya:
  • Armed forces
  • Pro-Gaddafi Militia
  • Foreign mercenaries
Victory
Dutch military intervention against ISIL
Dutch involvement in the Syrian Civil War
(2014–2019)
 Netherlands  Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
Boko Haram

al-Nusra Front
Khorasan


Ahrar ash-Sham

Victory
  • Operation Inherent Resolve is in play.
  • 2014 Iraqi intervention against ISIL
  • Airstrikes on ISIL and al-Qaeda affiliates positions in Iraq and Syria
  • Spillover of the Syrian Civil War: American-led intervention in the Syrian Civil War
Mali War
(2017–2019)
 Mali
United Nations MINUSMA
  •  France
  • Nigeria ECOWAS
  •  Germany
  •  Netherlands
al-Qaeda Ongoing
  • Dutch withdrawal 2019
EMASOH
(2020)
 France
 Netherlands
 Denmark
 Belgium
 Greece
 Italy
 Portugal
 Germany
Ongoing
  • France led EU operations being conducted.
  • Dutch withdrawal of ship Zr.Ms. De Ruyter in June 2020, still has two staff officers present
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Notes[]

  1. ^ Duchy of Warsaw as a state was in effect fully occupied by Russian and Prussian forces by May 1813, although most Poles remained loyal to Napoleon.
  2. ^ Many member states of the Confederation of the Rhine defected after Battle of Leipzig.

References[]

  1. ^ Hrushevsky (2003), pp. 327ff.
  2. ^ a b Joined the Confederation of the Rhine on 11 December 1806.
  3. ^ a b c d e Hagen, Piet (2018-05-10). "Opstanden, expedities en oorlogen". Koloniale oorlogen in Indonesië: Vijf eeuwen verzet tegen vreemde overheersing (in Dutch). Singel Uitgeverijen. ISBN 9789029524209.
  4. ^ Wies Platje, 297–299
  5. ^ J.D. Legge, 403
  6. ^ Friend, Theodore (2003). Indonesian Destinies. The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. p. 35.
  7. ^ a b Platje, Wies (2001). "Dutch Sigint and the Conflict with Indonesia 1950–62". Intelligence and National Security. 16 (1): 285–312. doi:10.1080/714002840. S2CID 153528325.
  8. ^ Soedjati Djiwandono, Konfrontasi Revisited, p. 135.
  9. ^ "Operation Trikora – Indonesia's Takeover of West New Guinea". Pathfinder: Air Power Development Centre Bulletin (150): 1–2. February 2011. Retrieved 19 September 2013.
  10. ^ https://www.nato.int/nato_static_fl2014/assets/pdf/pdf_2018_09/20180903_2018-09-RSM-Placemat.pdf[bare URL]
  11. ^ President Barack Obama Speaks With VICE News
  12. ^ https://www.nato.int
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