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4 unusual facts about Herman Willem Daendels


Albertus Henricus Wiese

To reassert control, the government sent the revolutionary General Daendels, who promptly took over from Wiese and tried to drive out the British.

France–Indonesia relations

During the reign of Governor General Herman Willem Daendels (1808–1811), France exercised its political influences in East Indies through Dutch Republic.

Herman Willem Daendels

Drawing on his experience from the East Indies, he came up with some very ambitious infrastructural projects, including a comprehensive road system, with a main road connecting Elmina and Kumasi in Ashanti.

Philip Julius van Zuylen van Nijevelt

During the Anglo-Russian Invasion of Holland in 1799, this brigade was part of the Batavan 1st Division under the command of Herman Willem Daendels.


Pierre Auguste Brahain Ducange

He played an important role in the coup d'état of 22 January 1798 in the Batavian Republic, by general Herman Willem Daendels, which brought the radical unitarist faction of Wybo Fijnje and Pieter Vreede to power, and he helped write the Staatsregeling voor het Bataafse Volk of 1798 (the first Dutch Constitution).


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