Carel de Vos van Steenwijk
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Carel de Vos van Steenwijk was a Dutch politician and diplomat.
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Kingdom of Holland
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The Kingdom of Holland was the short-lived successor state of the Batavian Republic. It was created by Napoleon Bonaparte in March 1806 in order to strengthen control over the Netherlands by replacing
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…on the legislative corps of the Republic. From 4 to 18 June 1806 De Vos acted as the Republic's grand pensionary, before Louis Bonaparte became king of Holland. On 16 February 1807 he was made a commander of the Order of the Union and in 1810 a baron of the Empire. After France annexed the new kingdom in 1811…
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