Gerard Brantsen was one of the Dutch signatories to the treaty ending a war that began in what year?
Fourth Anglo-Dutch War The Fourth Anglo-Dutch War (1780–1784) was a conflict between the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Dutch Republic. The war, contemporary with the War of American Independence, broke out over British and Dutch disagreements on the legality and conduct of Dutch trade with Britain's enemies in that war.
Eighty Years' War (1566–1609) The first half of the Eighty Years' War between the Spanish Empire and the Dutch Republic was fought between 1566 and 1609. When the Twelve Years' Truce was signed in 1609, ending this stage of the war, the northern Netherlands had achieved "de facto" independence.