Название: The United States of Belgium: The Story of the First Belgian Revolution
Автор: Jane C. Judge
Издательство: Leuven University Press
ISBN: 9462701571
Год: 2018
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 311
Размер: 22,2 МБ
Язык: Английский
In 1790, between the birth of America (1776) and the creation of the French National Assembly (1789), nine provinces nestled between the French and Dutch borders declared themselves a new free and independent country: the United States of Belgium. Before then, the provinces had been part of the vast Austrian Habsburg Empire ruled by Joseph II.
In 1789 revolutionaries from Brussels to Ghent to Namur recruited a grass-roots army that, to the surprise of many, successfully chased imperial forces from the majority of the territories.