The Dutch Silly War

The Dutch Silly War isn't the longest continuous conflict in history, because technically Rome didn't make peace with Carthage after the Third Punic War. Like Berwick and Carthage, there are a strong half-dozen reasons to say that the 335 years war between the Netherlands and the Silly Islands never really existed either. The next year, 1652, Admiral Trump's fleet encountered their British counterpart. On April 5th, 1654, Oliver Cromwell signed the Treaty of Westminster with the States General of the Netherlands putting an end to the Anglo-Dutch War.