Enlightenment · Europe · Politics
1674
Third Anglo-Dutch War Ends
1674
The Treaty of Westminster ended the Third Anglo-Dutch War with a return to the status quo. The Dutch conclusively retained New Netherland but ceded it back to England at the treaty in exchange for Suriname. New York became permanently English. Anglo-Dutch hostility would soon yield to dynastic alliance, and within fifteen years a Dutch prince would sit on the English throne.