General Daendels Taking Leave of Lieutenant-Colonel Krayenhoff by Adriaan de Lelie (1755-1820) and Egbert van Drielst (1745-1818) Oil on panel, 1795. 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, 18th January 1795.
General Daendels Taking Leave of Lieutenant-Colonel Krayenhoff by Adriaan de Lelie (1755-1820) and Egbert van Drielst (1745-1818) Oil on panel, 1795. 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, 18th January 1795.
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