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General Daendels Takes Leave of Lieutenant-Colonel Krayenhoff
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The French army, which had invaded the Netherlands at the request of the Dutch Patriots, had already reached Utrecht when Daendels, a Dutch general in French service, sent Krayenhoff to Amsterdam. He was to ask the city council to step aside so that a new –Patriot –government could be installed before the French arrived. The change of authority took place in Amsterdam that same evening, 18 January 1795.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionCredit lineGeneraal Daendels neemt afscheid van luitenant-kolonel Krayenhoff. 1795. Adriaan de Lelie. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
