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A Mountain of Gold & a
Mountain of Iron: Reassessing the First Anglo-Dutch War
1652-1654
Andrew Van Horn RuossAndrew Van Horn RuossHistory Department Senior History Department Senior ThesisThesis2009-20102009-2010
The House of Orange v. Holland Regents
Verenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie
- Charter 1602
- 1648 Treaty of Münster
EIC - December 31, 1600 Charles I (r. 1625-1649)
English Civil War-Massive Expenses
Trade Losses
What do Historians Have to Say?
Charles Wilson: Profit and Power -martial manifestation of the increasingly
heated, developing trade competition between the emerging empires of the seventeenth-century Dutch Republic and England.
J.R. Jones: The Anglo-Dutch Wars of the Seventeenth Century
-tenuous political play within republican England
Steven Pincus: Protestantism and Patriotism -influential clout and zealous viewpoints of
the radical Protestant faction of the interregnum government
A New Perspective
THESIS: The English East India Company
merchants’ strategy to compete against Dutch trade hegemony, manifest in English foreign policy, was the fundamental underlying cause of the First Anglo-Dutch War.
The Origins of A Trend
James I: 1603-1625- Timid and defensive policy
Amboyna
-Banda ArchipeligoMarch 9, 1623
The Rise of EIC Power
-London Aldermen
-Growing Influence with the Crown
Radical Takeover
Purge: EIC Directors
December 6, 1648 – Pride’s Purge
-Rump Parliament
1651 Navigation Act
-Maurice Thompson
(1624) (EIC Proxy)
1620s & 1630s(Skinner, EIC Proxy)
John Milton
Clerk to the Council of State:Concilium Status Parlamenti Republicae Angliae
The Commonwealth’s Demands
Summary of EIC Losses
1653 - Protectorate EIC
A DEFINING
LEGACYA Mountain of Gold and a Mountain of
IronThe Legacy of The First Anglo-Dutch War
(1652-1654)
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