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The 'New' Navy, 1652-1713

The 'New' Navy, 1652-1713

Authors :
Jaap R. Bruijn
Source :
The Dutch Navy of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Publication Year :
2011
Publisher :
Liverpool University Press, 2011.

Abstract

This chapter analyses the ‘New’ period in the history of the Dutch Navy, classified as between 1652 and 1713. It is divided into six sections: the reasons for the old navy’s obsolete status; the components of John de Witt’s ‘new’ navy; the various campaigns against England, France, and the Baltic; the changes that took place within Naval administration; the careers of Michiel de Ruyter and other naval officers; and the manning of ships in the ‘new’ period. It concludes with the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1714), and the financial toll this took on the Dutch navy, a gradual process that wore down their capacity to operate. It concludes that financial problems coupled with the diminished threat from France forced the Dutch Navy to fundamentally alter their structure and subsequently redefine their role within the republic.

Details

Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
The Dutch Navy of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Accession number :
edsair.doi...........44faf0b216ca1f6c1841d61599df19a7
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.5949/liverpool/9780986497353.003.0002