Batavian Revolution
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The Batavian Revolution was a time of political, social and cultural turmoil at the end of the 18th century that marked the end of the Dutch Republic and saw the proclamation of the Batavian Republic.
Patriot troops, 18 January 1795
The exercitiegenootschap of Sneek
Beginning of the revolution in Amsterdam, 19 January 1795
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Solumn inauguration of a liberty tree on Dam Square in Amsterdam on 4 March 1795[full citation needed]
William V, Prince of Orange
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William V was Prince of Orange and the last Stadtholder of the Dutch Republic. He went into exile to London in 1795.
Batavian Revolution
…period, from about 1780 to 1787, is known as the Patriottentijd or "Time of the Patriots". The power of the "Patriots" grew until the stadtholder, William V, felt he had to flee the country in 1785. He asked his brother-in-law Frederick William II of Prussia for help, and in 1787 a relatively small Prussian…
Portrait by Henry Bone, c. 1801
In The Orangerie (1796), James Gillray caricatured William's dalliances during his exile, depicting him as an indolent Cupid sleeping on bags of money, surrounded by pregnant amours
Jacques Firmin Beauvarlet, Portrait of Willem V, Prince of Orange, 1765, engraving
Portrait by Johann Georg Ziesenis (c. 1768–1769)