The United Kingdom of the Netherlands: History Matters (Short Animated Documentary) 

Which one?

Literally every conference ever

@@cv4809 Munich Agreement, the one where Britain and France decided Czechoslovakia's fate.

*MUNICH CONFERENCE INTENSIFIES*

@@cv4809 treaty of versails?

*1000

Interestingly, I read somewhere that Napoleon III's government once offered take over the protector role of Belgium from Britain, but the British refused as they feared this would cause too much strife and be seen as provocative by the major German states (notably Prussia).

@@thunderbird1921 Finally, a state was created by the English to bring together 2 peoples who hated each other: the Dutch speakers and the French speakers. Today, almost two centuries later, they still do not understand each other. They have different political parties, different newspapers and refuse to speak the other's language. Everything would have been much simpler if after the Napoleonic wars, all these French-speaking lands had remained French.

@@olivierlarrieux8261 I've often said that Belgium really isn't a country, but more a loose union of 2-3 microstates under one crown, and that share a parliament (we must not forget the German region). It's one of the most bizarre "nations" I've ever seen.

@@thunderbird1921 try Switzerland :D They have 4 languages.

Germany lost the first world war never to be seen again Until Germany came back in the second world war

@@jamesk5541 Meanwhile, Grover Cleveland became the president. Then, he stopped being the president never to be seen again. Until he became president again.

True, but now Germany is indeed gone forever. It looks like nobody can defeat Germany fully...only Germany itself can do that...and it did.

Right after they said never to be seen again you can see a subtile "1815 *spoilers*" 0:27 I love this channel.

"Somehow, Napoleon returned..."

A favorite of mine is the sign "back luck" always followed up by the execution of the person adressed by it.

@@lolokernic6746 Or the thump whenever someone dies

Sometimes he just says "change stuff"

Fun fact: no

Theres also ''stars yo'' on american flag

Jackington Foxpickle and whe are very thankfull for it.

It's well documented that the British would have gotten involved anyways, this was just fortunate for them.

Redbad of Frisia fortunate in an unfortunate situation.

And have been Portugal's ally through the very worst of times. The UK is really good at making good on its promises to white european countries. Not so great at keeping promises it makes to everybody else.

@@GenkiGanbare Didn't they only remember Portugal when it was most convenient for them?

That what you get when you have been the envy of Europe post Rome

*Peak France intensifies*

@@francehasbeenthemostimport9558 I N C O R R E C T

Nice things France couldn't keep Canada ❌ Navarre ❌ Belgium ❌ Army winter uniforms ❌ World Cup 2006❌ Euro 2016 ❌

France has been the most important power post-Rome Your the ‘envy’ of Europe. Lol stop being pathetic

Lol I wanted to write it...

RULE BELGICA!!

The next video will be less subtle, artillery only challenge

Didn't he already do that... the FIrst World War? @@crusader7659

@@JukeboxTheGhoul That doesn't count, there was spicy wind too

_"It is now."_ _-Leopold I_

Im belgian to be honest sometimes i dont get my country i rather have a full dutch speaking country

@@MajorBluesZ _Why dont you move to Netherlands instead, you orangist_

Kenny Kenny BurritoTM or i stay here and we form dietsland search it up

@@MajorBluesZ Wich DietsIand, the onIy "Remove WaIIonians" or the "Integrate waIIonians" one? And yeah, you're a freaking Iunatic

Name checks out

Ragnar Of Scandinavia “please tell me how great I am”

@Hugo No, it isn't.

@Hugo a No it isn't.

@@sarpbakrsoy8125 how late can you be

Ewww feudal republics... 🤢

@The Black Order Also, different shape, different shades of colors and different arrangement. But I guess it's hard to tell apart for the blind and stupid.

@@Whatareyoudoinnhere money

Even today the dutch say that belgium got independence in 1839 although it is actualy 1830

@@Whatareyoudoinnhere Austrian Netherlands was the most developed province of the Empire, with lot of excellent universities, dense population, highly productive agriculture, rich trade places at the heart of Europe. but yes it was difficult to defend against the French.

@legkip legkip the impression I got from the video is that people were mostly upset because of taxes, and while there were other separating factors, it would not be too far-fetched to say that we could've had a United Benelux in our current day in age, if not for those taxes

Holland isnt a country..The Netherlands is. Greetings from a Dutchman (Not a Hollander) .

@@You-mr3lo But the truth is outside The Netherlands, the terms Holland and Netherlands are interchangable. Like in Eurovison you are The Netherlands, but your Drag Race uses Holland.

@@Nikki-tx6kh No they are not. Tell me what country you are from and ill explain even better. Just say Netherlands. Not Holland. Its insulting to the better part of the country to be named after them.

@@RK-cj4oc in arabic we say hollanda to refer to the netherlands we have no word for the netherlands idk why tho.

0:29 *spoilers*

@Kira youre sad

Sarcasm in these video is very powerful

In belgium we go way deeper, we learned all the flaws of the dutch king and all the scams he tried to pull on the flemish and the french speaker...

@@crazyciler50 That's probably why they don't teach it, because it makes the king look bad. I also remember in my history books it only mentioned very briefly that Indonesia declared independence. Not one word about a war they fought there.

In my Dutch history classes, we actually talked much more elaborately about it; we even had discussions about it. It depends on your school and your school level. We also paid much more attention to the "politionele acties" KofteG61 mentions in his comment.

@@crazyciler50 Why don't you elaborate; I'm curious.

R. V. B. Omda da meer dan 8 les uren waren en genen tijd heb om tijdens dour daar een synthese van te maken...

The Governor nah my dude bring it to the tanks

@Sarcasmal 2:48 - *_William Orange Man Bad_* 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Racist

“ANTI-GERMAN”

What is ISP? I assume you're not referring to Internet Service Providers.

@@maddie9602 ISP stands for ISorrowProductions, a youtuber known for playing a wide variety of games. He founded the 'Belgian Lives Matter' movement as a sort of mickey-take of Black Lives Matter

which one? lol

@@g.w.f.212 All of them!

@@g.w.f.212 he says warS

@@g.w.f.212 Yes

It is not like the dutch did any better. Considering everytime Belgium in both ww's put up more of a fight than the Netherlands in 1940. A united kingdom of the Netherlands thus likely wouldn't have been much stronger overall anyway.

@@MDP1702 well it has always been the case that Belgium had a better army then the dutch other then right after the revolution. Even in the sorry state it's in right now it would probably still beat the dutch in a war. All the while the dutch always had and still have the better fleet

@@MDP1702 Belgium wasn't defeated in WW1 though. It was close, but they weren't

@@Josep_Hernandez_Lujan I didn't say they did? Considering they didn't surrender then, they put up a better fight than the dutch in WW2

@Will Wow It's actually threepoint of Germany, France, and Great Britain's aspirations and pretences

A gigantic German pit stop on there way too France

How time have changed.

@@buttersurge8047 Sadly yes

At the time, it was more the British built speed bump into Germany, considering the whole Napoleon thing.

Wipe that tear away, son and stiffen that bloody lip. (Hums along)

A very cynical comment of History Matters, because Britain never gave a fuck about Belgium (or Portugal). Britain and Germany had been looking for an excuse to go to war with each other ever since 1870 so when Germany supported Austria in its war against Serbia and France supported Russia in defending Serbia against Austria, Germany found itself at war with France and took the short route and Britain had its excuse at last.

​@@ixlnxs "Britain and Germany had been "looking for an excuse to go to war with each other ever since 1870", no, Britain really wasn't. They had practiced a policy of "Splendid isolation" since the Napoleonic wars because the British viewed any intervention in Europe as too costly and not worth it. The French and Russians even asked them directly to join the war and they just refused since they didn't want to get involved. If what you say is true and they just wanted , had a staging ground to send their army to, and their reason was basically as good as France's. The British only decided to get involved after they basically had too, you cant just make a guarantee like that and break it when it's convenient (in respect to Europe), the public wouldn't allow it and it would of destroyed their reputation. The invasion (and subsequent warcrimes) that happened to Belgium also heavily pressured the government to fully commit to the war due to public opinion being extremely anti-German, where-as before the public didn't really care What's interesting about your comment is that your little note of "(or Portugal") shows that your claim is motivated by a hatred for Britain and not a desire to actually progress the conversation. Portugal is totally irrelevant to the conversation (and not really comparable to Belgium's relationship with Britain) and you didn't even elaborate on why you mentioned it. It's almost like a child just venting its opinion to destress its anger

@@animatorofanimation128 My reference to Portugal was because the UK only honoured their alliance to Portugal whenever it was convenient, but was more than willing to throw Portugal under the bus when not.

@@ixlnxs why would Britain look for an excuse to go to war with Germany? Britain never wanted war with Germany nor did it have anything to gain. Part of the reason for creating Belgium was to lessen conflict between France and Germany. If Britain wanted to go to war then it would’ve declared war with France at the beginning.

TIL the proper name for the U.S.'s economic system is "mercantalism" That's pretty much the U.S. *especially* under any conservative administration. The less-conservative states have most of the population and industry and pay the vast majority of taxes, while federal expenditures pay for the entire (largely agrarian and low-wage labor) economies of conservative states. These economies are largely built around funneling money into the pockets of the ruling conservatives rich friends (who hire them as "consultants" once they retire from government).

Unfortunately, that's how monarchy works. See William I 's dad was the fifth prince of orange so it makes sense for him to be William V. If William I were to be the prince of orange in the same way his father is, he would be William VI. But instead, he was proclaimed King of the Netherlands and by right as the first king, gets to use William I.

@@aniqsufyan2113 except if u a Duke of Savoy, who even when the became kings of Sardegna, still kept their numbering

@Pim ik zeg altijd al, ze hadden de Van Zuylen Tuyll moeten vragen voor de rol. Bella de poëet.. ze waren niet volks genoeg, visitez Oud Zuylen maintenant, un librairie voila

H.Oebele That was a complicated treaty!

Very interesting story indeed. I'm from the territory of Neutral Moresnest, it has a different name now though. Not many people know about our history but lots of saxophones and Parisian roofs were made from the zinc mined on our territory. That mine was the reason why we became neutral as the great powers if Europe did not agree amongst themselves who would get it.

That treaty (London) also was where the 3 great powers recognized Belgiums neutrality. Not just Britain, but also France and Prussia (later Germany). Needless to say, in 1914 Germany interpreted this differently from Britain.

@@gunterke and Russia

neutral moresnet actually existed before belgium, it was made in 1816 as a nation both owned by prussia and the netherlands, since it was one of the only zink mines in europe and they both wanted it

Just come back

@@timvanrijn8239 most dutch speaking flamish would.

@@timvanrijn8239 Als we terug komen hoe zullen walen dan vlaams belastigsgeld moeten stelen?

@@oikmijnloly6033 niet das het mooien gaan ze van die franzosen stelen

@@oikmijnloly6033 als we terug gaan, weg met die sossen!

Two minutes early.

Zeg makker

@@Crick1952 dat zijn geen specerijen

Infame Brabanders met een vermakelijk spraakgebrek.

Wafels zijn geen kokosnoten.

You've probably never heard of Overly Sarcastic Productions then.

This channel is still more sarcastic

Haven't we all? :D

Omg there’s literally a video where he’s talking about something and says “To start, we have to go back to Napoleon… It’s always Napoleon…” lol

For the sake of DipIomacy, and "neutraI" cuIture (Imagine now, if they choose the Count of Hainaut or an Aristocrat from FIanders, how messy it wiII be)

@@Valandix They probebly would have chosen a Wallonian French speaking aristocrat. It where mostly French speaking bourgeoisie who wanted independence or annexation by France.

jan De vries True, the Dutch speaking Flemish in the north only joined the rebellion because the catholic priest preached in favor for it.

@@jandevries1300 Probably not a walloon (wallonian is not the correct form btw ^^) since most of the elite was were french speaking flemish, most of them coming from Brussel. Furthermore, only a part of the bourgeoisie wanted to be a part of France for one moment, it was the industrial bourgeoisie that feared economical consequences and wanted to still be connected to a big market. That's why the pro-french lobby was almost exclusively constituted from orangists that previously advocated for the reunification with the Nertherland. They changed their stance when it was no longer possible.

It seems that the Liberals their part in the revolution are often forgotten. The Liberals and Catholics worked together (Monsterverbond) to protest against Willem I, and later run a country together. Leopold I was known for being sympathetic to the liberal cause, which made all the Liberals to vote for him. This, and his diplomatic ties to the Great powers, were reasons why he was chosen to be King by Congress.

Nope that was the united kingdom of the nederland's that was the buffer state

This should be pinned

“Eurooe”

@@JuniorJuni070never seen a typo?

Isn't "genEurooe" a STD?

@@skeletonrowdie1768 ever used the edit comment tool?

the southern half of the northern Netherlands (a.k.a. the Netherlands nowadays) also says friet mate

I have to correct you buddy, the correct word is Patat. they can say it yes but we all know its incorrect.

The dish is called Patat, and the things you eat are Frieten

@@sjakierulez no, the vegetable is called patat (in Antwerp)

*sigh* here we go again

There is also a province in eastern Belgium called Luxembourg, not to be confused with independent Luxembourg.

You should do that to educate readers in the comments. And myself haha

And our FIag was horizontaI And yeah, most of BeIgian popuIation wasn't happy about the french intervention especiaIIy the Iiégois after how they fucked their revoIution some decades ago against the Bishop. And how the Hennuyers suffers from French occupation during the napoIeonic wars

5. Also mention that most Belgians are Dutch speaking. That "Parc du Bruxelles" thing in the video is anachronistic as fuck. Back then it only had the Dutch name Warandepark, which is still one of the two official names today, of course.

so the opera is widelly debated as far as it's influence, especially since revolutionary riots where already ongoing. I personally believe that was just added because it made for a better story

@@ixlnxs6. Walloons spoke Walloon the language not what we call Walloon now which is a "dialect" of french. the bourgeoisie on both sides spoke french though. And the frenchification was more effective because Walloon and french are kinda what Dutch and German are. Also yes other then the bourgeoisie Brussels and the part around it spoke Brabantian dialects (which are of course dutch dialects ergo dutch, but also not as I assume you meant it)

Who he

MJR Schneider If Id made this video it would have been a 5 minute long Wilhelmus followed by the statement that Belgium is Southern Netherlands or nothing. But it’s a good thing not every channel is like mine 😉

@@miloskocic1759 History with Hilbert, historian RU-vidr with a tendency to put earrape with the Wilhemus in his videos.

@@historywithhilbert146 Belgium is southern Netherlands, but some of Southern Netherlands is Belgium

@@historywithhilbert146 Yeah I know, you're kinda BS each time you're making a video about the Netherlands or Belgium

You’re allies cause Germany was dominating in ww1 and ww2

Believe it or not, but since 1066, we went to war with eachothers every single century (well, except the XXe century, and even there, we almost went to war in 1898 at Fachoda)

Normie

The key word is Bosnia.

@@ComptGeorges among other factors yes

@@saladbruh2625 Yes, when I think there are even more things, we can even go to 1840s when Serbs in Vojvodina sided with Austria, thus stepping on Hungarian toes which they never forgave and Austrians never repaid, then decrease of Ottoman power, thus Serbia loosing its purpose as an Austrian ally and a buffer state- with its expansionist ambiton this only worsen. Of course the Russian activity in the region with Austrian betrayal of Russia in Crimean war, and the international suport for Serbs during the Herzegovina uprsing, Serbian internal violence between pro-Austrian Obrenovic and pro-Russian Karadjodjevic, the rise of Austrian project of Yugoslavism (J.J. Strossmayer) and Croatian catholic nationalism to counter Serbian orthodox nationalism, then finally Bosnian occupation amd Berlin congress. A lot of shit, this could even be a 10 min..

@@ComptGeorges exactly all those factors. When Serbia stopped being of use to Austria-Hungary as a buffer state because ottomans were weak and they have occupied Bosnia so there was no more need for a territory that was called "Vojna krajina" or a millitary sector that was once the border that Habsburg empire and ottomans shared and was populated by serbs whose task was to protect the Habsburg empire. There serbs had nicer pay them other serbs of the empire and better lives but the sector was abolished in i think 1888 because it was of no use anymore and serbs there lost their status and were not happy. And most of that territory was in Croatia and serbs back then were at least 40% of population in Croatian territories. They were untill WW2 as well but where either killed or forced to leave by the Ustasa during the war.

@@saladbruh2625 Well that would be a good educational video.

TheSatanicTicTac Prussia: No.... And also you can't fries with that

@ (1) Slavery was fully legal within the Dutch Empire. The Netherlands decided everything that happened within this empire. (2) Slavery was phased out slowly, and it were the slaves, rather than the Dutch government, that paid for this transition. (Btw the US Civil War was caused by the will of the South to EXPAND slavery, in order to sway the Senate in their favor. The idea to abolish slavery only happened later on.) (3) Slaves never were "cheap", meaning that the rate at which they had to work to death didn't differ notably. And if economics dictated anything, it was that punishment for escape was intensified. It also meant planters engaged more in lease-contracts for slave-labour, so you never worked with the slaves that only you possessed. Slavery didn't abate until it was abolished.

@@sirwolfnsuch 'Slavery was fully legal within the Dutch Empire.' That is actually wrong. In the Homeland Netherlands slavery was actually 'officially' illegal. A slave could get 'officially' his freedom when he got in the Netherlands itself. Of course this was a grey area practically. But most of the time there were very few slaves in the Netherlands itself and if they where there they acted as servants for the rich people most of the time.

​@ People made shitloads of money with slavetrade, yet people still believe slaves were cheap/worthless. Logic much?

Llĺƙ😊

I'm willing to wait for longer videos.

I actually love the new format

WIllem II and Wilhelmina were cool tho

_*Sovereign Kingdom of Southern Netherlands_

Oh no, it's *WestiIImakebettercheesethanyou Kingdom

@@Valandix neen

@@steyn1775 _Fick dich_

Fighting the good fight ❤️

but why tho