On 10 January 1795, Pichegru crossed the frozen Waal, after which only little fighting was needed in the rest of the country: op 16 January, the province of Utrecht surrendered, and on the night of 18 to 19 January a nonviolent Batavian Revolution took place in Amsterdam and the Batavian Republic was proclaimed, while many Orangists together with the stadtholder fled to England.