English Revolutionary Wars (Dissent)

The English Revolutionary Wars were a series of mostly defensive wars by Scotland, England, and later the united Commonwealth of Britain against royalist invasions from Ireland, Spain, and even France as well as battling internal monarchist unrest. Britain however would go on the offensive, retaliating against the Irish and overthrowing the royalists in favor of more neutral landowners there as well as helping out the Dutch and the Catalans against the Spanish Empire. Britain was supported by France, due to the intense Habsburg-French rivalry and the Triple Alliance (which included the Netherlands). Portugal was also fighting for its independence from Spain and it recieved help from the Commonwealth, changing Portugal's allegiance away from the Royalists. The Spanish, meanwhile, used their navy and grip of the new world to keep the British colonies in the new world in Royalist hands (although in reality this Royalist Exile government would be subordinate to the Spanish). The Massachusetts Colony, closer to New Netherland and pro-Parliamentarian in the Eleven Years War, would side with the Dutch and the Commonwealth and recieve protection as an autonomous Dutch colony inhabited by Englishmen and Scotsmen. The Revolutionary British government would eventually reclaim the Bahamas and Belize, but Massachusetts would remain in Dutch hands. The wars would end with the Peace of Breda, which would declare amnesty for British Nobles so long as they gave up their titles, and ushered in a period of normalization of relations (both trade and diplomatic) between Britain and the rest of the world as well as the ascendancy of the Dutch Republic as Britain focused on internal reforms.