If we just let our vision of the world go forth and we embrace it entirely,

and we don't try to piece together clever diplomacy but just wage a total war,

our children will sing great songs about us years from now.

Richard Pearl, American Political Advisor, Consultant and Lobbyist.

Hello and welcome to When Diplomacy Fails, Episode 26.8, the First Anglo-Dutch War Part 4.

In the previous episode, we examined the outbreak of the war after years of simmering tensions

and a boatload of stressful issues.

We examined how the Dutch Andropot came to be and why it was so important for Europe,

as well as why the English Navigation Act so affected it.

We saw the course of the opening stages of the war, how the Dutch were lulled into a state of complacency and utterly smashed in the first serious military contest of the war, the so-called Channel Fight in February 1653.

We also examined some central issues for the English like Sovereignty of the Seas and their implementation of some seriously significant naval reforms

that would stand the test of time.

In this episode, sorry to spoil it for you, it only gets worse for the Dutch, as the defeats pile up

and despair mounts, how will the Republic cope? Let's find out, as we travel to the year 1653, where important domestic

alterations have occurred despite the fact that the war raged on in the background.

Thank you. Pettling terra Pats of Bills, Overnal Godin'U amidst the ongoing changes, laudans to bea nevite the ongoing war between the English and Dutch,

occurred historically significant changes in regime for both sides.

In the Netherlands, Johann De Witt was elected grand

pensionary at the States of Holland, a position he was to hold until his death in 1672,

reflecting the importance of his posting. Despite only representing one of the provinces

as grand pensionary, so central was Holland that DeWitt came to be treated by foreign governments

and by the English, as the de facto prime minister of the Dutch. But England was itself

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