Quotes About Dutch Republic

by the end of the 1660s France was the supreme military power in Europe and its navy, once negligible, was coming to rival those of the Dutch Republic and England.

the Dutch were another matter. Although the republic's population was tiny compared with that of France or Spain, it had emerged as a great power. It owed that power to trade, to carrying and handling the goods of others.

The rise of the Dutch Republic must ever be regarded as one of the leading events of modern times.