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Slag om Hellevoet - liberation from the French in 1813

Slag om Hellevoet - a large-scale spectacular re-enactment of the historic events in 1813. With many authentic dressed soldiers, cannons firing with thunder, musket fire, and clouds of gunpowder by the troops of the "Napoleonic Association of the Netherlands" and the "Gunners of Hellevoetsluis".

 

Photo June 29, 2014, Slag om Hellevoet after 201 years.

 

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Hellevoetsluis - Slag om Hellevoet

Frans-Bataafse tijd - it's the French Batavian period in the Netherlands (1795 to 1813) in the time of Napoleon Bonaparte, after the liberation the Netherlands became the "Sovereign Principality of the United Netherlands".

 

Info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_period.

 

 

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Photo - Richard Poppelaars.

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