This lesson contains 13 slides, with interactive quiz, text slides and 1 video.
Lesson duration is: 40 min
Items in this lesson
Today
Paragraph 5.5 - The end of the Dutch Republic
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Goals
You will be able to explain what happened in the Dutch Republic before, during and directly after the French Revolution
You can make a timeline of different governments in the area now known as the Netherlands between 1787 and 1815 (today we will get to 1795)
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Deshima
Conflicts with England cause downfall in trade
No Dutch ships for years
Fall of the VOC
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Patriots vs. Orangists
Patriots: people who protested against the power of the stadtholder
Demanded more influece of the people, supported the ideas of the Enlightenment
Orangists: supported the stadtholder
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Stadtholder Willem V and his wife Wilhelmina of Pruissia flee to Nijmegen (1787)
But Wilhelmina travels back to The Hague, gets caught by the Patriots, returns to Nijmegen and advices her brother to act
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Patriots flee and return
After the arrival of the Prussian army, the Patriots flee to France
During the French Revolution they side with the Revolutionaries
1795: return to the Dutch Republic with the French Revolutionary Army
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The Batavian Revolution
Read 'The Batavian Revolution' (TB 128)
Name at least three similarities between the French Republic
and the Batavian Republic
Name at least one difference
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Give two similarities and one difference between the French and the Batavian Republic
Slide 8 - Mind map
End of the Batavian Republic
At the end of the 18th century radical Patriots committed a coup. Under their power the Dutch Republic developed into a Unitarian state. This meant that the provinces did not have any power anymore and that the Batavian Republic was governed centrally from The Hague. But in 1801 an authoritarian government replaced them. Emperor Napoleon of France saw this type of government as a threat to the power of the people in the Batavian Republic. He also thought that the Batavian Republic did not support France enough in its war against Great Britain. And thus Napoleon decided that it was necessary to intervene. In 1806 he replaced the authoritarian government with his own brother Louis as king of Holland. King Louis did not perform to Napoleon’s expectations; he tried to serve Dutch interests instead of his brother’s. The kingdom was dissolved in 1810 after it was annexed by France.
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Lesson: Never invade Russia
Who
Grande Armee consisted of 500,000 men of which c.15,000 were Dutch conscripts
When
1812
Where
To Moskou and back
Why
More power!
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Lesson: Send Napoleon farther away than Elba
Who
Napoleon
When
1815
Where
The island of Elba and France
Why
Being imprisoned close to the European main land is not his style