second half of the NUMBER_TOKENth century although it wouldn't be until the war of spanish succession or the sponsor successi orlo which ended in NUMBER_TOKEN that the spanish netherlands would be given to a new power they'd be given to austria and so they became the austrian netherlands now try and imitate that dialect well this remained the status quo for a while in NUMBER_TOKEN with the liberal reforms in the austrian empire the deeply catholic and religious belgians revolted against austrian rule many of them fled north into the dutch republic and there created a rebel army and two years later after having learnt some basic training they entered into belgium and started what became known as the bravant revolution or the bravonse on bentley in the case they were able to defeat the austrian army in the austrian netherlands and established the united belgian states although soon the rebels started fighting among themselves making it easy in NUMBER_TOKEN for the austrians to re-invade what had been the austrian netherlands and reimpose their power the belgians who escaped the massacre fled into france and formed the comite de belge or the committee of united belgians and liaison trouble was also brewing north of the border in the dutch republic where politics had split into two factions one was the prince jose known in english as the orangists who supported the stockholder the starter was like a caretaker of the state although he was not a monarch and had limited powers on the other side there were the patriots who were the patriots who wanted the star powder to be abolished and there to be more direct forms of democracy the patriot decided to create civil militias and between NUMBER_TOKEN and NUMBER_TOKEN they succeeded in capturing several cities throughout the dutch republic creating what almost became a civil war in most of the modern day netherlands between various factions the start out of willem v fled from holland as holland's state council was no longer prepared to send its soldiers to fight against the patriot militia in the east of the country he did do battle with them and subsequently lost but it wasn't until his wife princess wilhelmina was stopped by a patriot patrol that she decided things had gone too far and she no longer felt safe in her own country she wrote a letter to her brother who happened to be a very powerful man frederick william ii the king of prussia and with his support prussian troops invaded to the netherlands and they ousted the patriots from the country thus restoring the orangists of the prince hasinder back to power with the start howder as the caretaker of the republic however in france a revolution had been successful the french revolution had taken full swing and by NUMBER_TOKEN france's armies were preparing to attack its neighbors in what would become one of the first napoleonic battles this would be against the austrian netherlands the french invaded again being supported by those belgians who had fled the country following the failure of the brahms revolution however the austrians and the dutch banded together and pushed back into the austrian netherlands forcing the french out and briefly retaining control over the southern netherlands however two years later in
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