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The Peace of Munster (1648)

The war between Spain and the Dutch Republic resumed in 1621, after the end of the Twelve Years' Truce between the two countries. However, it was no longer the life-and-death struggle it had been before the truce. In the Republic, voices were raised in favour of peace: especially in Dutch trading towns such as Amsterdam, a continuation of the war was considered pointless and costly.
In the 1640s, Spain sought rapprochement to reach a political solution to the conflict. Stadholder Frederick Henry, himself highly successful as an army leader in the fight against the Spanish, also became an advocate of peace during this period.

This finally allowed an accord to be reached in Munster in 1648. Among the stipulations in the peace treaty was that the territories occupied by the Netherlands in Asia, Africa and America could be preserved. Consequently, Curaçao, Aruba, Bonaire, Saint Maarten, Saba and Saint Eustatius have belonged to the Netherlands since 1648.

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