Editing Fourth Anglo-Dutch War (section)

==Aftermath==
The war proved a disaster for the Netherlands, particularly economically.  It also proved to be confirmation of the weakening of Dutch power in the 18th century. In the immediate aftermath of the war, the bad result was blamed on the stadholder's mismanagement (if not worse) by his opponents, who coalesced into the [[Patriots (Dutch Republic)|Patriot party]]. These managed for a while to roll back a number of the reforms of the [[Second Stadtholderless Period#Crisis and the Orangist revolution of 1747|revolution of 1747]], strongly diminishing his powers. However, this [[Patriottentijd|Patriot revolt]] was [[Prussian invasion of Holland|suppressed in 1787]] by Prussian and British intervention. The Patriots were driven abroad, but returned in 1795 with the help of the [[French First Republic|French revolutionary]] armies and established a [[Batavian Republic]] in place of the old Dutch Republic. The [[Low Countries]] remained central to British strategic thinking, and they sent expeditionary forces to the Netherlands in 1793, 1799, and 1809.
The war caused severe damage to the VOC, which already in a severe crisis, was to go bankrupt just a few years later.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.zum.de/whkmla/military/18cen/anglodutch4.html|title=The Fourth Anglo-Dutch War, 1780-1784}}</ref>