Pichegru, who has successfully avoided the frozen…

January 1795 CE

Pichegru, who has successfully avoided the frozen Dutch Water Line, arrives in Amsterdam on January 20, after a velvet revolution has taken place and proclaimed the Batavian Republic; William V, Prince of Orange, Stadtholder of the Dutch Republic, has fled the country

The French will occupy the rest of the Dutch Republic in the next month.

This major victory has been marked by the exceptional discipline of the French battalions in Amsterdam, who, although faced with the opportunity of plundering the richest city in Europe, show self-restraint, and by ...

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Amsterdam Noord-Holland Netherlands View →

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Jean-Charles Pichegru View → William V, Prince of Orange View →

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Austria, Archduchy of View → Netherlands, United Provinces of the (Dutch Republic) View → Habsburg Monarchy, or Empire View → Bremen-Verden View → Saint Domingue, French Colony of View → Brunswick-Lüneburg, Electorate of (Electorate of Hanover) View → Spain, Bourbon Kingdom of View → Prussia, Kingdom of View → Britain, Kingdom of Great View → Netherlands, Southern (Austrian) View → Sardinia, Kingdom of (Savoy) View → Naples and Sicily, Bourbon Kingdom of View → French First Republic View → Batavian Republic View →

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French Revolution View → First Coalition, War of the View → French Revolutionary Wars, or “Great French War” View → Thermidorian Reaction View → French Revolutionary Wars: Campaigns of 1795 View →

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