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Speaker 1: This Day in History Class is a production of iHeartRadio.

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Speaker 1: Hello and welcome to This Day in History Class, a

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Speaker 1: show that flies the flag of history every day of

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Speaker 1: the week. I'm Gay Bluesier, and in this episode, we're

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Speaker 1: looking at the beginning of diplomatic relations between the Netherlands

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Speaker 1: and the United States, one of the longest unbroken peaceful

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Speaker 1: relationships between foreign powers. The day was April nineteenth, seventeen

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Speaker 1: eighty two, the Dutch Republic became the second nation to

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Speaker 1: officially recognize the sovereignty of the United States. The diplomatic

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Speaker 1: recognition was secured by American founding father John Adams during

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Speaker 1: his tenure as ambassador to the Netherlands. It was a

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Speaker 1: vital step in legitimizing the young nation in the eyes

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Speaker 1: of the World Commune, and marked the beginning of a

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Speaker 1: peaceful and productive friendship that's still going strong nearly two

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Speaker 1: and a half centuries later. The first connection between the

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Speaker 1: Netherlands and what would ultimately become the United States began

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Speaker 1: in the late fifteen hundreds. Like other European societies at

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Speaker 1: the time, the Dutch were eager to stake acclaim in

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Speaker 1: the so called New World and began to colonize the

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Speaker 1: eastern coast of North America. The first Dutch settlement, known

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Speaker 1: as New Netherland, stretched all the way from modern day

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Speaker 1: Boston to the del Marva Peninsula and was established to

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Speaker 1: tap into the lucrative fur trade. The area was eventually

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Speaker 1: turned over to the British in sixteen seventy four, but

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Speaker 1: by then the Dutch settlers had already left a lasting

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Speaker 1: mark on the region. One of their forts, Fort Amsterdam,

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Speaker 1: eventually grew into a full blown settlement known as New Amsterdam,

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Speaker 1: and once the British took it over, they renamed it

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Speaker 1: New York City, which, of course it's still called today.

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Speaker 1: A more direct interaction between the Netherlands and the US

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Speaker 1: took place during the Revolutionary War, when the Dutch people

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Speaker 1: expressed sympathy for the American struggle for independence. For example,

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Speaker 1: in seventeen seventy six, a Dutchman offered the first ever

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Speaker 1: foreign salute to the American flag, or more accurately, to

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Speaker 1: the Grand Union flag. In American naval ship, the USS

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Speaker 1: Andrew Doria, was on its way to the Dutch island

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Speaker 1: of Saint Eustacius in the Caribbean, and when it fired

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Speaker 1: its guns thirteen times to announce its arrival. The canons

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Speaker 1: of the island's fort were fired in response. It was

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Speaker 1: Dutch governor Johannes de Graf who ordered this first salute,

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Speaker 1: but it's worth noting that he did so against the

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Speaker 1: wishes of the Dutch government. In fact, when his superiors

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Speaker 1: caught wind of what he'd done, the action was formally

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Speaker 1: disavowed and de Graf was called back to the Netherlands

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Speaker 1: to explain himself. The Dutch government warmed up to the

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Speaker 1: idea of recognizing US sovereignty in seventeen seventy nine when

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Speaker 1: naval commander John Paul Jones showed up in Amsterdam with

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Speaker 1: two captured British ships, but it wasn't until three years

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Speaker 1: later that the Netherlands formally recognized the United States of America.

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Speaker 1: They were only the second nation to do so, after France,

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Speaker 1: and the acknowledgment came at the tail end of the

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Speaker 1: Revolutionary War. John Adams, who would go on to become

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Speaker 1: the second President of the United States, was made ambassador

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Speaker 1: to the Dutch Republic in seventeen eighty. By that point,

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Speaker 1: he had already obtained sizeable loans for the war effort

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Speaker 1: from Dutch bankers, and in seventeen eighty two, he traveled

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Speaker 1: to the Netherlands in his role as imbast to finalize

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Speaker 1: a trade agreement between the two countries. Adams was received

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Speaker 1: by the Dutch government in the Hague on April nineteenth,

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Speaker 1: seventeen eighty two, and by accepting his credentials as Minister

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Speaker 1: of the United States of America, the Netherlands provided the

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Speaker 1: second diplomatic recognition of the US as an independent nation.

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Speaker 1: During his extended stay in the Netherlands, John Adams also

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Speaker 1: purchased a house in the Hague, thereby establishing the first

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Speaker 1: American embassy in the world. Six months after his arrival,

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Speaker 1: Adams succeeded in his mission as ambassador by negotiating the

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Speaker 1: Dutch American Treaty of Amity and Commerce, which was signed

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Speaker 1: by both parties on October eighth, seventeen eighty two. It

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Speaker 1: was America's second such treaty with a foreign nation, once

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Speaker 1: again after France, and in addition to outlining the two

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Speaker 1: countries economic responsibilities to one another, it also proclaimed a

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Speaker 1: quote firm, inviolable and universal peace and sincere friendship between

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Speaker 1: the United Netherlands and the United States of America. The

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Speaker 1: strength of that commitment has stood the test of time,

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Speaker 1: and today the two countries continue to enjoy close friendly relations.

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Speaker 1: The American and Dutch governments have worked together on humanitarian

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Speaker 1: and peacekeeping efforts within the United Nations and NATO, and

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Speaker 1: are each heavily invested in the other's economic interests. President

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Speaker 1: Ronald Reagan celebrated this long running partnership on the two

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Speaker 1: hundredth anniversary of John Adams's first meeting with the Dutch.

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Speaker 1: In a presidential proclamation, he declared April nineteen to be

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Speaker 1: Dutch American Friendship Day, a commemoration which is still observed today.

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Speaker 1: I'm Gabe Lusier and hopefully you now know a little

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