Brabant Revolution [SEP] start time
de Hoensbroeck, in a bloodless coup d'état known as the "Happy Revolution" ("Heureuse révolution"). Contemporaries viewed the uprising in Liège, which was also inspired by Enlightenment ideas, as a symptom of revolutionary "contagion" from France. In the face of a rebellion proclaiming the ideas of liberty and equality, the Prince-Bishop soon fled to the neighbouring Archbishopric of Trier and the revolutionaries proclaimed a republic in Liège.
Revolution Invasion.
The Brabant Revolution broke out on 24 October 1789 when the "émigré
Manifesto of the People of Brabant
The Manifesto of the People of Brabant (, ) was a document made public at the start of the Brabant Revolution in 1789 proclaiming the end of Austrian occupation over the Duchy of Brabant.
Background.
In October 1789, the leader of the "Statists", Henri Van der Noot and the general Jean-André van der Meersch led a small army of patriots from the Dutch Republic where they had been in exile into the Duchy of Brabant, then under Austrian rule. The