(Napoleonic Wars)

Estimate: $500–$700
Hammer price: $450

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author

(HOLLAND)

Place

Holland

Publication

Yom Kippur - 16 Kislev, 1794

Description

Manuscript in Yiddish

summary

Riveting eye-witness account of the Napoleonic conquest of the Dutch cities of Nijmegen and Maastricht in 1794. By the end of 1794, the French victory in Holland was complete. "Holland made peace as best she could. She had to pay a huge financial indemnity to France and ceded to her Maastricht, Venlo and all her territory south of the Scheldt, while her navy was put at the disposition of the French." M. Glover, The Napoleonic Wars: 1792-1815 (1978), p. 30

Single leaf. Browned. Folio

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