[Growltiger]

Chaps,

I tend to agree with a lot of this. I am not an expert Anglo-Dutch historian so cannot comment in detail, but as an Englishman, I have to say that two European nations which are strikingly similar to the English are the Dutch and the Danes.

I did kind of wonder if this was due to the Saxons, Frisians and Danes all coming from pretty much originating from the same part of Europe. May be it is, who knows.

As English, we only tend to remember Campertown (where we whupped the Dutch big style).

Got some indonesian friends who are not very polite about Dutch colonialism for some reason.