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The challenge is to establish an alternate Belgium that while losing Flanders to the Netherlands, still manages to have a sizable population of Dutch / Flemish speakers and even a significant number of English speakers (who largely outnumber of the OTL German speakers). The latter would entail...

In OTL, the Dutch had short-lived colonies in the Americas. However, I’m wondering if it would have been possible for the Dutch to conquer and establish settler colonies in Mexico, Central America, and South America in the 16th century instead of the Spanish and Portuguese.

While I doubt their naval dominance can last indefinitely, I wonder what needs to be changed so that the Dutch don't go from major power to completely minor at the start of the 19th century. From what I understand a lot of funding went to maintaining the land force to protect against French...

Which European colonial power has the best chance to conquer the Ryukyu Islands before Japan? And how does this affect Asian history?

So, assuming that end up with a Dutch-settled Australia [New Holland] would the population end up forming their own language like the Afrikaner's did or would it just be a local variant of Dutch? Also, if a unique language did form what would it likely be called? Whatever New Holland ends up...

What if the Dutch Republic's navy had managed to defeat the outnumbered forces of its spanish-filipino enemies at the battles of La Naval De Manila (1646)? Could the dutch take hold of Manila and, thus, the Philippines? If so, then what are the effects on the dutch and spanish colonial empires...

Artists interpretation of Amakusa Shiro, leader of the Shimabara Rebellion. From Wikipedia The Shimabara Rebellion (島原の乱 Shimabara no ran) was an uprising in what is now Nagasaki Prefecture in southwestern Japan lasting from December 17, 1637, to April 15, 1638, during the Edo period. It...

So I had this spontaneous thought recently. From the Mid 17th century (as the Dutch established Cape Colony on 1652), what if the Dutch decided to exchange Cape Colony for the Philippines and the Spanish end getting Cape Colony? If it did occur, how would Spain manage Cape Colony and and how...

Patriot Rebellion. 1785-95 After the disastrous defeat suffered in the Fourth Anglo-Dutch war a number of citizens began to voice a wish to bring about changes to the government. Among the most influential was Joan van der Capellen tot den Pol who would become a key figure in the coming...

Batavia – A Dutch Timeline The peaceful alliance of Qing and Ming Emperor Chongzhen decides to ally with the Manchus to prevent Li Zhicheng from winning. He would arrange an alliance with the Manchu, having his daughter, ZhaoRen married to the Shunzhi Emperor of the Manchus. A Treaty of...

Say that the Netherlands, rather than going pacifist and horribly neglecting their navy during the first half of the twentieth century decides to maintain a force of at least four BBs, four large cruisers, eight smaller cruisers and twenty four destroyers. Plus submarines. Extra points if you...