• DOI:10.2307/3678740
• Corpus ID: 159934682

Some Second Thoughts on the Third Anglo–Dutch War, 1672–1674

@article{Boxer1969SomeST,
  title={Some Second Thoughts on the Third Anglo–Dutch War, 1672–1674},
  author={Charles R. Boxer},
  journal={Transactions of the Royal Historical Society},
  year={1969},
  volume={19},
  pages={67 - 94}
}

• C. Boxer
• Published 1 December 1969
• History
• Transactions of the Royal Historical Society

As the Professor of Modern History at Cambridge observed in his perceptive study of England and the Dutch Wars: ‘The wars themselves demonstrated not a few of the characteristics of modern warfare; there is a foretaste here of the bitter national feeling, the unscrupulous use of propaganda against the enemy, that were to become more familiar later. To some extent these weapons of war were deliberately manufactured and exploited by governments in the time of the Dutch wars, but equally certainly they were sometimes natural and spontaneous phenomena.’ Professor Charles Wilson confined his masterly analysis to the first two Anglo–Dutch wars. In this paper, I propose to consider the same points with reference to the third of these conflicts, and to trace in outline the major shifts and vagaries of public opinion on both sides of the North Sea.