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The Kingdom of Holland (Dutch: Koningrijk Holland (contemporary), Koninkrijk Holland (modern); French: Royaume de Hollande) was the 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 the republican government with a monarchy.
A white flag with the flag of the Netherlands striped across both the top and the bottom, and the flag of Suriname in the centre. 1966–1986: Flag of the governor of the Netherlands Antilles: A white flag with the flag of the Netherlands striped across both the top and the bottom, and the flag of the Netherlands Antilles in the centre. 1986–2010
Van der Burg, Martijn. "Transforming the Dutch Republic into the Kingdom of Holland: The Netherlands between republicanism and monarchy (1795–1815)." European Review of History – Revue européenne d'histoire 17.2 (2010): 151–170. Velema, Wyger RE. (2019) "Reform, Revolution, and the Republican Tradition: The Case of the Batavian Republic."
The national flag of the Netherlands (Dutch: de Nederlandse vlag) is a horizontal tricolour of red, white, and blue. The current design originates as a variant of the late 16th century orange-white-blue Prinsenvlag ("Prince's Flag"), evolving in the early 17th century as the red-white-blue Statenvlag ("States Flag"), the naval flag of the States-General of the Dutch Republic, making the Dutch ...
The Netherlands under Napoleon Bonaparte in 1806, oversaw the Batavian Republic become the Commonwealth of Batavia and then dissolved and replaced by the Kingdom of Holland, a French puppet kingdom ruled by Napoleon's third brother Louis Bonaparte (Lodewijk Napoleon). As a result, the East Indies during this time were treated as a proxy French ...
This is a list of wars involving the Kingdom of the Netherlands and its predecessor states since 1795. These predecessors include: United Provinces, or Dutch Republic (1581–1795): see List of wars involving the Dutch Republic; Batavian Republic (1795–1806) Kingdom of Holland (1806–1810) Sovereign Principality of the United Netherlands ...
In The Hague he met with Cornelis Felix van Maanen, the president of the Imperial High Court and responsible for introducing the Napoleonic Code in the Netherlands. The couple stayed one night in Lange Voorhout Palace; [14] in Rotterdam in Schielandhuis. Through Gouda, Oudewater, and Utrecht Napoleon arrived at Het Loo Palace.
Before the French Revolutionary Wars (1792–1802), the Low Countries was a patchwork of different polities created by the Eighty Years' War (1568–1648). The Dutch Republic in the north was independent; the Southern Netherlands was split between the Austrian Netherlands and the Prince-Bishopric of Liège [2] - the former being part of Habsburg monarchy, while both were part of the Holy Roman ...