the conflict was ended by compromise. in the end, the west frisian cities gave up their resistance to external appointments, and in 1589 hoorn instituted its own admiralty college. on 14 june 1597, the states-general of the netherlands sanctioned the situation as it then was, so that amsterdam too kept its own admiralty. these measures were intended to have a temporary character, but they remained in force until the end of the republic in 1795.