A history of Belgium from the Roman invasion to the present day . s with Van der Noot. Aretired colonel of the Prussian army. Van derMeersch, was chosen as the commander of thethree thousand badly equipped volunteersmassed along the Dutch frontier. On October23rd he occupied Hoogstraeten, in the Campine,and issued a manifesto in which Joseph II wasdeclared to have forfeited his rights. A slightsuccess at Turnhout, a few days later, followedby the retreat of the Austrian forces, sufficed toprovoke risings all over the country. Desertedby his Walloon troops. General dAlton wasobliged to leave Br
A history of Belgium from the Roman invasion to the present day . s with Van der Noot. Aretired colonel of the Prussian army. Van derMeersch, was chosen as the commander of thethree thousand badly equipped volunteersmassed along the Dutch frontier. On October23rd he occupied Hoogstraeten, in the Campine,and issued a manifesto in which Joseph II wasdeclared to have forfeited his rights. A slightsuccess at Turnhout, a few days later, followedby the retreat of the Austrian forces, sufficed toprovoke risings all over the country. Desertedby his Walloon troops. General dAlton wasobliged to leave Brussels for Luxemburg, theonly town remaining loyal. On December i8thVan der Noot and Vonck made their solemnentry into Brussels, followed by a thanksgivingservice at Ste Gudule. Amazed by these events,Joseph II wrote to Count de Segur : A generalmadness seems to seize all peoples; those ofBrabant, for instance, have revolted becauseI wanted to give them what your own nationclamours for. He was certainly nearer thetruth than Camille Desmoulins, who, in his well-. BELGIAN UNITED STATES 265 known paper, assimilated the two revolutionsbecause they started almost on the same a matter of fact, the Brabangonne revolutionwas far more conservative than intellectual Vonckists, who had always beenin a minority, were practically ignored on themorrow of the victory, and Van der Noot assumedpower. The new Constitution, accepted, on January ii,1790, by delegates of the provincial States, withthe exception of Luxemburg, declared the EtatsBelgiques Unis to form a confederation underthe leadership of a Supreme Congress. TheStates General dealt only with questions of generaladministration and differences between the pro-vinces. The Congress was responsible for foreignaffairs, all local matters being referred to theprovincial States. Though, at first sight, thisConstitution seems to be strongly influenced bythe American example, it marked merely thetriumph of the particulari
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