The North American War of Independence had reached its fifth year, and the French had already ended. Moreover, the French Navy had finally shown its strength for more than ten years. In the naval battle of 1778, the French Navy strongly sniped John Bull.

Although he failed to win a major tactical victory, he directly won a huge strategic advantage.

The French Navy's undefeated is victory, and their existence has broken the British Navy's maritime blockade against the thirteen North American states.

This greatly inspired Spain, the Netherlands and other countries to participate in wars one after another. Their naval power alone is naturally no match for the British, but it is enough to sway the flag and shout around France.

The participation of various countries in the war caused the British's maritime advantage to be further weakened.

One of the major consequences of this is that the British maritime blockade of the thirteen North American states was completely broken.

A large number of military supplies, even "civil volunteers", came to North America from France, and the impact on the North American continental army was no less than that of Entong.

To compare it with a more well-known example, the strong aid of the Americans to the skinheads during the Liberation War is not as good as the support of the current Gaul roosters to the United States.

The metaphor is not used for the US aid during the War of Resistance Against Japan because there were too few US aids at that time. Moreover, the Gaul rooster strongly supported the United States, and at the same time, he also pulled up a group of younger brothers to fight with John Niu on the sea.

The Dutch are one of the participating countries.

Although they were passively joined.

Because last year, the British unilaterally abolished the various treaties of the Anglo-Dutch alliance led by William III on the grounds that the Netherlands supported the American War of Independence, and launched the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War against it.

This matter is a bit conspiracy, and many people in later generations are preparing to take a custody after seeing the situation is not good.

Because the Dutch lost a lot in this war, the great gains the British got from them were enough to make up for their own failure in the North American battlefield.

Zhao Liang believes that the Dutch in Batavia must have received news from Europe at this time.

Although he had no idea about the process of the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War, he only knew the final result - John Bull completely defeated the defunct Netherlands with his superior navy and plundered the Netherlands' rich caravan supplies and colonies.

Even though this war ended with the British recognizing the independence of the United States, the Netherlands' national strength and credit strength plummeted. It was only possible to rely on the mediation of its ally France, and to win a better peace treaty with the British.

But this set the foreshadowing and interference of France in the Netherlands during the Gaul Rooster Revolution ten years later.

No matter what, the Dutch were defeated in this war.

Zhao Liang remembers that the information he saw from there said: Britain's defeat of the Netherlands can be said to be a huge compensation for its own loss of the thirteen North American states, which enhanced Britain's national strength and competitiveness - the Netherlands has since lost the power to compete with Britain for trade, and the huge treasury bonds they originally borrowed from the Dutch (see William III) were also exempted from huge interest by the British using the excuse of war, and acquired treasury bonds from Dutch merchants at low prices after the war. As a result, the domino effect of the Netherlands' defeat became increasingly greater. Amsterdam, which had been the financial center of the world, completely replaced its financial position by London after the war; the Dutch East India Company also suffered a serious economic crisis due to the impact of the defeat, revealing a huge irreparable deficit, and finally declared bankruptcy and disbanded at the end of the 18th century.

So although Zhao Liang did not know the trend of the British-Dutch war in the future, based on the results, he could also be sure that Batavia would inevitably be attacked by the British in this war.

Isn’t this a great opportunity for him to seek Lion Island?

If he missed this opportunity, he would have to wait until the time of the Gaul Rooster Revolution more than ten years later.

Luo Fangbo, Jiang Wubo and others looked at each other. They did not know so much about European politics and current affairs, and they even couldn't feel how powerful the British were.

Because in Southeast Asia, the British had no place to settle down, and their popularity was completely suppressed by the Dutch and Spain.

Their eyes only focus on how Lan Fang people, who are three-point land in Nanyang, understand how the outside world is, they only think that the enemy has long become someone else's prey.

Zhao Liang didn't mind taking this opportunity to introduce the political and military situation in Europe to Luo Fangbo and others.

This is a great opportunity for him to improve his style.

After telling the story, Zhao Liang's personal image became even more noble in the eyes of Luo Fangbo and others.

It is indeed a powerful figure. People have so far viewed in China. Unlike them, they have all gone to Southeast Asia and under the eyes of the Dutch, but they are even very ignorant of the Netherlands.

At the same time, the British's status suddenly became majestic in the eyes of all Lan Fangren present. What a powerful country this should be. How dare you go to war with several powerful countries in the oceans around the world?

This is thanks to Zhao Liang's failure to touch the topic on Northern Europe and Russia.

Nowadays, Russia's popular Russian Karina II took advantage of the fact that Britain, France and other countries were in a mess and proposed the "Declaration of Armed Neutrality", demanding that Britain's rights at sea be restricted.

The general meaning is to protect the commercial interests of neutral countries during wartime.

Simply put, the Russians all disliked the British and wanted to take this opportunity to trade more with the United States and sell more material to the United States so that they could fight with Johnnie more fiercely.

The British were used to being domineering, so they directly intercepted merchant ships from various countries at sea, and immediately detained them once they found the "contraband".

This further strengthens the resentment of countries towards them.

Therefore, once the declaration proposed by Karina II was released, it immediately won the support of Nordic countries such as Sweden and Denmark. Then Prussia, Shinra, Portugal, and the two Sicilian kingdoms expressed their acceptance of the declaration one after another, thus forming an armed neutral alliance composed of multiple countries.

The declaration that the neutral ships had the only right to resist the attacks of belligerent countries at sea, and a group of countries also concluded a joint defense treaty based on these principles.

Then these countries demanded that the belligerent countries France, Spain, the Netherlands and Britain accept this declaration. France and Spain, the Netherlands accept it immediately, which is equivalent to their friendly forces. Britain refused.

But no matter how awesome the British are, they dare not take the initiative to attack the armed neutral alliance.

Therefore, it is not surprising that John Bull was defeated in the North American War of Independence. They are already fighting against the whole of Europe. Being able to hold the Dutch backhanded and bit the fat sheep hard, and lose in the east and make up for it, that would be amazing.

After so many years of battles, they ended in failure. That should have suffered a huge loss. Look at the French after the Seven Years War.

But as for the British, apart from the increase in military expenditure debts, the overall national strength has not been greatly weakened. That is really awesome.
Chapter completed!