Orange War (Dissent)

The Orangist War, also known as the Second Dutch Revolt, was a small scale civil war in the Netherlands between the ruling republican Staatsgezinde partij and the opposing monarchist Prinsgezindheid. The Orangists were supported by the Spanish from the Spanish Netherlands as they sought to destabilize the new English government by removing one of their allies, the Dutch Republic. The French, natural enemies of the Habsburgs on both their borders, joined in to help out the ruling republicans under Johann de Witt and Cornelis de Graefe defeat the powerful Willem, Prince of Orange-Nassau. This would not be the last revolution the netherlands would see, and Willem would not be fully defeated and would flee to the Holy Roman Empire, looking for supporters.