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How Did a Dutch Fleet Reshape the British Monarchy? - The Negotiated Transfer of Power in 1688 | Sleepy Facts About History
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In the summer of 1688, English Protestants looked at their Catholic king, James II, and feared he was building an absolutist state modeled on France. Within months, seven English nobles invited a foreign prince to bring an army to English soil. The resulting Dutch invasion and the subsequent political settlement fundamentally reshaped the British monarchy, but the traditional story of a peaceful, bloodless revolution obscures the reality of what actually happened.
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