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Updated: May 4, 2025
Pichegru invades Holland Winter Campaign The Duke of York vainly resists the French Army Abdication of the Stadtholder Batavian Republic War with England Unfortunate Situation of Holland Naval Fight English Expedition to the Helder Napoleon Bonaparte Louis Bonaparte named King of Holland His popular Conduct He abdicates the Throne Annexation of Holland to the French Empire Ruinous to the Prosperity of the Republic The people desire the Return of the Prince of Orange Confederacy to effect this Purpose The Allied Armies advance toward Holland The Nation rises to throw off the Yoke of France Count Styrum and his Associates lead on that Movement, and proclaim the Prince of Orange, who lands from England His first Proclamation His second Proclamation.
But the general and his garrison soon felt a complete panic from the bold attitude of Count Styrum, who made the most of his little means, and kept up, during the night, a prodigious clatter by his twenty horsemen; sentinels challenging, amid incessant singing and shouting, cries of "Oranje boven!" "Vivat Oranje!" and clamorous patrols of the excited citizens.
Count Styrum, Messieurs Repelaer d'Jonge, Van Hogendorp, Vander Duyn van Maasdam, and Changuion, were the chiefs of the intrepid junta which planned and executed the bold measures of enfranchisement, and drew up the outlines of the constitution which was afterward enlarged and ratified. Their first movements at The Hague were totally unsupported by foreign aid.
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