Abstract
Though the Dutch were determined not to deviate from the policy of neutrality and isolation, they did not accustom themselves easily to their new position and their new policy. They looked back with longing on their golden era in the days of the Republic when the Netherlands played a leading role in the political and economic life of Europe. As a result of the Napoleonic Wars their colonial possessions had shrunk. With the cession of Ceylon and South Africa they had lost strategic positions on important sea lanes on the route to the Indies. Until 1854 the Netherlands had been the sole connection between the Western World and Japan, but this survival of its proud earlier days was now likewise gone.
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