Re: Another Dutch Warning Shot to Rutte
Originally Posted by
digitalham
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No. A lot of the former colonies were simply given independence although in truth could probably not have been held considering the parlous state we were in after liberating the subjugated countries of Western Europe.
I did look up just how you lot lost yours. Google tells me...
In the 18th century, the Dutch colonial empire began to decline as a result of the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War of 1780–1784, in which the Netherlands lost a number of its colonial possessions and trade monopolies to the British Empire and the conquest of the wealthy Mughal Bengal at the Battle of Plassey.
The netherlands gave independence to their last colony in 1975, where I was born. My parents left there in '64, and already trouble was brewing at that time. There was a military coup, but a few years ago there were elections, although the military still hold all the cards.