Beck 274: "It was the British who destroyed the Dutch navy in the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War of 1780-84, and it was the British who replaced the Dutch at the top of world capitalism through the end of the nineteenth century. [...] [T]he British exploited Dutch weakness to make London the new financial center and then revolutionized how the world produced and transported goods [...] The revolution started in the field of what are called capital goods -- that is, the things people need in order to make lots of other things. Railways are capital goods, as are machines that produce textiles and the iron that goes into a steam engine, and the British were at the vanguard of all three."