# List of wars involving the Dutch Republic

This is a list of wars involving the Dutch Republic, which emerged from the Habsburg Netherlands during the Eighty Years' War (c. 1566–1648). The set of "United Provinces" that would later become the Dutch Republic proclaimed its independence in 1581. In the Low Countries theatre of the War of the First Coalition, the Dutch Republic was conquered by the First French Republic in 1795, and replaced by the Batavian Republic.
* For earlier wars, see List of wars in the Low Countries until 1560.
* For simultaneous wars in the south, see List of wars in the southern Low Countries (1560–1829) – includes wars on the present territory of Belgium and Luxembourg, including the Southern Netherlands (Spanish Netherlands & Austrian Netherlands), the Principality of Liège, the Princely Abbey of Stavelot-Malmedy, the Prince-Bishopric of Cambrésis and the Imperial City of Cambray, the Duchy of Bouillon, and smaller states.
* For wars after 1795, see List of wars involving the Netherlands.

## List

| Conflict and date | Combatant 1 | Combatant 2 | Result |
| Eighty Years' War (c. 1566–1648) | Geuzen and Orangist troops (c. 1566–1570s) United Provinces (c. 1576–1580s) Calvinist Republic of Ghent (1577–1584) Antwerp Republic [nl; fr] (1577–1585) Brussels Republic [nl] (1576–1584) Dutch Republic (1581/8–1648) Dutch States Army (1570s onwards) Allies: Francis, Duke of Anjou (1580–1583) Kingdom of England (1585–1604, 1625–30) Kingdom of France (1595–8, 1635–48) Duchy of Bouillon (1593–5) | Spanish Empire (incl. Habsburg Netherlands) Bandes d'ordonnance (early war) Army of Flanders (1567 onwards) Portuguese Empire (1580–1640) Austrian Habsburgs (1598–1621) Allies: Prince-Bishopric of Liège (1595) | Peace of Münster Independence of the Dutch Republic Spanish retention of the Southern Netherlands |
| Dutch–Portuguese War (1601–1661) | Dutch Republic Native allies | Portugal Native allies 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 Treaty of Hague Formation of the Dutch Empire Portuguese Restoration War |
| Beaver Wars 1609–1701 | Iroquois League Mohawks Oneida Seneca Onondaga Cayuga Supported by: England Dutch Republic | * Huron Algonquin Susquehannock Erie Neutral Petun Odawa Ojibwe Wenro Mahican Innu Abenaki Supported by:  France | 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) | Qing dynasty Aisin-Gioro clanManchusMing DefectorsSouthern and Eastern Mongols Joseon (Korea; after 1636) Dutch East India Company | Ming dynasty (1618–1644) Southern Ming (1644–1662): Hongguang and The Nanjing court (1644–1645) Longwu and The Fuzhou court (1645–1646) Shaowu and The Guangzhou court (1646–1647) Yongli and The Nanning court (1646–1662) Koxinga Joseon (Korea)Yehe JurchensTiandihuiKingdom of Tungning (1661–1683)Northern Yuan dynasty (1618–1635)Chagatai Yarkent Khanate (1646–1650)Kumul KhanateTurpan KhanateTokugawa Shogunate Kingdom of Portugal English East India Company | Victory Collapse of the Ming dynasty and Southern Ming dynasty Suppression of the rebel Kingdom of Shu, Xi dynasty, Shun dynasty, and Kingdom of Tungning Consolidation of Qing dynasty rule in China proper |
| 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 achieve favourable treaty, and attack on Dutch ships stop Expedition to Algiers (1624) |
| Dutch conquest of the Banda Islands (1609–1621) | Dutch East India Company (VOC) Dutch Republic | Bandanese fighters East India Company Kingdom of England | Victory Banda massacre committed Dutch forces colonise the Banda Islands. |
| Expedition to Algiers (1624) | Dutch Republic | Ottoman Algeria | Victory |
| Spanish-Siam War (1624–1636) | Siam Dutch East India Company | Iberian Union Spanish East Indies Council of Portugal Macau Goa Malacca | Victory Dutch hegemony on Southeast Asia. |
| 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 National seclusion policy imposed Christianity driven underground in Japan |
| Cambodian–Dutch War (1643-1644) | Dutch East India Company | Kingdom of Cambodia | Defeat |
| Kieft's War (1643–1645) | 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 Lascarins  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 |
| Conflict between Willem Leyel and Bernt Pessart (1643 - 1645) | Leyel loyalist Dutch Coromandel English Madras Portuguese Carical Supported by: Thanjavur Nayak | Pessart loyalist | Victory All of Danish India accepts Willem Leyel as governor. |
| 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 Treaty of Westminster Loevestein faction gains power in Dutch Republic at Orangists' expense |
| Peach War (1655) | 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) 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 |
| First Khoikhoi–Dutch Wars (1659–1660) | Dutch Republic | Khoikhoi militia | Victory |
| Esopus Wars (1659–1663) | 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 Treaty of Bongaya |
| Second Anglo-Dutch War (1665–1667) | Dutch Republic Denmark France | England Bishopric of Münster | Victory Uti possidetis Treaty of Breda |
| Mughal conquest of Chittagong (1665-1666) | Mughal Empire Bengal Subah Dutch Republic Portuguese India | Kingdom of Mrauk U Burmese and Portuguese pirates | Victory Annexation of Chittagong into Dominion of Hindustan as Bengal Subah |
| First Münster War (1665-1666) | Dutch Republic | Bishopric of Münster Supported by: Kingdom of England | Victory Treaty of Kleve Bernhard von Galen renounces his claim to the Lordship of Borculo |
| First Dutch-Zamorin War (1666-1668) | Dutch East India Company | Zamorin of Calicut | Victory |
| Second Dutch-Zamorin War (1670-1672) | Dutch East India Company | Zamorin of Calicut | Victory Chetwai ceded to the Dutch. |
| Kandyan-Dutch War (1670-1675) | Dutch Republic  Dutch East India Company | Kingdom of Kandy France | Victory French expelled from all occupied territories Expansion of Dutch Ceylon, and Rajasinha's offenses repelled |
| Third Anglo-Dutch War (1672–1674) | Dutch Republic | England France | Victory Treaty of Westminster (1674) |
| Second Münster War (1672-1674) | Dutch Republic | Bishopric of Münster Kingdom of France 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) | 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 territories of Maastricht and Principality of Orange in exchange for these gains |
| Second Khoikhoi–Dutch Wars (1673–1677) | Dutch Republic Khoikhoi allies | Khoikhoi militia | Victory |
| Trunajaya rebellion (1674–1680) | Mataram Sultanate Dutch East India Company (VOC) VOC's Indonesian allies | 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 | Treaty of Fontainebleau (1679) Treaty of Lund (1679) Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye (1679) Sweden cedes most of its Pomeranian areas east of the Oder to Brandenburg-Prussia. |
| Nine Years' War (1688–1697) | Dutch Republic England Holy Roman Empire Spanish Empire Duchy of Savoy Scotland | France 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 Dutch East India Company | Prasat Thong dynasty Kingdom of France French East India Company | Victory Establishment of Ban Phlu Luang dynasty. Expulsion of French troops in Bangkok. |
| 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) | 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 |
| Third Dutch-Zamorin War (1701-1710) | Dutch East India Company | Zamorin of Calicut | Victory |
| First Javanese War of Succession (1704–1707) | Dutch Republic | Mataram Sultanate | Victory |
| Dutch-Algerian war(1715-1726) | Dutch Republic | Ottoman Algeria | Victory |
| Fourth Dutch-Zamorin War (1715-1718) | Dutch East India Company | Zamorin of Calicut English East India Company (1715-1717) | Victory Dutch annexation of Pappinivattam and Chettuva. War indemnity of 85,000 gold coins was paid to the Dutch. |
| War of the Quadruple Alliance (1718–1720) | Great Britain France Austria Dutch Republic | Spain | Victory Treaty of The Hague Austria cedes Sardinia to Savoy Savoy cedes Sicily to Austria |
| 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 Governor-General Adriaan Valckenier was arrested by the Dutch government for the atrocity and replaced by Johannes Thedens. |
| 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 Prussian control of Silesia confirmed. Duchies of Parma, Piacenza and Guastalla ceded to the Spanish Bourbons. All other territories restored to pre-war owners |
| 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 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 Dutch East India Company | Cirebon Sultanate | Victory |
| Fifth Dutch-Zamorin War (1753-1758) | Dutch East India Company | Zamorin of Calicut Kingdom of Kandy | Victory The Zamorin of Calicut ceded Madilagam, Puthanchira, Chettuwaye, and Pappinvattam to the Dutch and agreed to pay tribute to them as part of the peace agreement. |
| 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  Dutch East India Company | Kingdom of Kandy | Victory Treaty of Batticaloa |
| 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 Treaty of Paris Britain recognizes the independence of the United States of America Dutch Republic gains United States as new ally and important trading partner, but Britain declares Fourth Anglo-Dutch War (1780–1784), defeating the Republic and causing the politically unstable Patriottentijd Mutual ally France ends up in deep debt, which later became one of the causes of the French Revolution (1789) 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 |
| Kettle War (8 October 1784) | Dutch Republic | Habsburg monarchy Austrian Netherlands | Status quo ante bellum Treaty of Fontainebleau (1785) |
| Patriot–Orangist battles (c. 1786–1787) | Orangists | Patriots | Inconclusive Orangists capture Patriot strongholds Hattem and Elburg (September 1786) Patriots win Battle of Jutphaas and Bijltjesoproer (May 1787) Interrupted by pro-Orangist Prussian invasion of Holland (late 1787) |
| Prussian invasion of Holland (late 1787) | Kingdom of Prussia Orangists | States of Holland 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 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 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 |
* War of succession
* War of conquest (territorial control)
* Religious war (including the European wars of religion)
* Economic war (including colonial wars)
* Revolt or rebellion (political)