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The Royal Netherlands Army is the land branch of the Netherlands Armed Forces. Though the Royal Netherlands Army was raised on 9 January 1814, its origins date back to 1572, when the Staatse Leger was raised making the Dutch standing army one of the oldest in the world. It fought in the Napoleonic Wars, World War II, the Indonesian War of Independence and the Korean War, as well as served with NATO on the Cold War frontiers in West Germany from the 1950s to the 1990s.
William II of the Netherlands at the Battle of Quatre Bras.
Soldiers on guard in the inundated area of the Dutch Water Line during the mobilisiation of the army in 1939.
Soldiers of the 15th Infantry Regiment advancing on East-Java in 1948, the Bren-gunner adjusts his sights.
Willem-Alexander is King of the Netherlands.
Prince Willem-Alexander (left) at age 14 and his brother Friso in 1982
Willem-Alexander in the navy uniform of ensign in 1986
Prince Willem-Alexander and Princess Máxima meet Michelle Obama, Barack Obama and Fay Hartog-Levin at the White House in 2009.