Prussian invasion of Holland
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The Prussian invasion of Holland was a military campaign under the leadership of Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick, against the rise of the democratic Patriot movement in the Dutch Republic
Prussian troops entering the Leidsepoort of Amsterdam on 10 October 1787.
Negotiations between Princess Wilhelmina and the defense commission on the same day in Goejanverwellesluis.
Frederick William II of Prussia by Anna Dorothea Therbusch
Princess Wilhelmina, by Johann Friedrich August Tischbein
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.
Prussian invasion of Holland
…movement in the Dutch Republic in September–October 1787 with the aim of disempowering the patriots and disarming the Free Corps, as well as reinstating William V of Orange as hereditary stadtholder in the Dutch Republic. On 7 June Von Salm-Grumbach was appointed by the Defence Committee in Woerden as commander-in-chief…
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)