Besides the reasons listed by the others, this also a matter of relationships as there a deep ties between these nations and the Netherlands. Without the Dutch

Besides the reasons listed by the others, this also a matter of relationships as there a deep ties between these nations and the Netherlands. Without the Dutch financing the Americans, America would not have been able to become independent from the English. The Dutch were also the first country on earth to acknowledge America's independence [1][2], costing them a war with the pissed England [3]. There are a lot of Dutch people living in Canada.[4] _____ 1. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_de_Graaff https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_de_Graaff> 2. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_First_Salute https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_First_Salute> 3. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_Anglo-Dutch_War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_Anglo-Dutch_War> 4. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_Canadians https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_Canadians>