Ben Franklin's World - 456 How the Dutch Republic Helped Win the American Revolution

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When we think about the foreign help that won American independence, most of us think of France. But in 1781, John Adams told the leaders of the Dutch Republic that the histories of their two nations seemed "but a transcript" of each other.Why did Dutch merchants sell weapons to American revolutionaries before the war even began? How did a nobleman's leaked speech and a Leiden newspaper editor sway Dutch opinion toward the American cause? And why did that support pull the Dutch Republic into a disastrous war with Great Britain?In the first of three episodes on Dutch involvement in the American Revolution, Dirk Alkemade of Leiden University and Matthijs Tieleman of Illinois State University, author of the forthcoming book The Patriot Atlantic, reveal how the Dutch helped the United States win its independence and how the American Revolution inspired a Dutch revolution of its own.Dirk’s Website Matthijs's Website | BookShow Notes: https://www.benfranklinsworld.com/456This episode was made possible with support from the New Netherland Institute and Dutch Culture, USA, a program of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in the United States to mark America 250. EPISODE OUTLINE00:00:00 Introduction00:07:05 The Dutch Republic in the 18th Century00:11:46 Dutch Wealth and the Anglo-Dutch Wars00:20:05 Dutch Trade and Smuggling in British North America00:26:07 The Dutch Respond to the American Revolution00:33:12 Joan Derk van der Capellen and the Dutch Press00:40:13 Charles Dumas, American Agent00:45:24 The Fourth Anglo-Dutch War00:50:08 John Adams in the Dutch Republic00:54:39 The Dutch Patriots and the U.S. Constitution01:04:03 1776 in Context: Why Americans Forgot the Dutch01:12:35 Final ThoughtsRECOMMENDED NEXT EPISODES Episode 121: The Dutch Moment in the 17th-Century Atlantic World Episode 161: Smuggling and the American Revolution Episode 351: Wealth and Slavery in New Netherland Episode 433: Entangled Revolutions: France, Haiti, and the American War for Independence Episode 438: The American Revolution and the Fate of the World Episode 444: The Model TreatySUPPORT OUR WORK Make a Donation to Ben Franklin’s WorldREQUEST A TOPIC <a href="https://bevel-gateway-5e2.notion.site/16f6cac043688089901ce4d81da

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