03-08-2020, 11:49 AM
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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.
03-08-2020, 11:53 AM
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Re: Another Dutch Warning Shot to Rutte
Originally Posted by Bread
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When the EU get's its little army, it too can be it's very own Empire with The Netherlands as one of Germany's occupied colonies.sounds all too familiar if you ask me
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