**Edit:** We’ve also posted this in /r/thenetherlands because you know, why not 😀
It’s also the holiday of the French Community (better know as the Federation Wallonie-Bruxelles)!
In 1830 the situation in the Southern Netherlands (what was to become Belgium) was quite… special. Willem I, king of the Netherlands, was not making himself very popular with several policies that went against the will of his Belgian countrymen.
Since august 1830 Brussels (and other Belgian cities) were in turmoil against the ‘Dutch occupation’.
On the 23rd of September the Dutch army, under command of Willem’s son Frederik, entered Brussels. Fights broke out in the city center and after 4 days the Dutch army fled Brussels.
A victory for the Belgian patriots and one step closer to Belgian independence.
Best day of my life
En daarmee ook de pindasaus
Completely in French. Shameful.
What would the result be if we were still one country?
We would be the smallest powerhouse in the world
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**Edit:** We’ve also posted this in /r/thenetherlands because you know, why not 😀
It’s also the holiday of the French Community (better know as the Federation Wallonie-Bruxelles)!
In 1830 the situation in the Southern Netherlands (what was to become Belgium) was quite… special. Willem I, king of the Netherlands, was not making himself very popular with several policies that went against the will of his Belgian countrymen.
Since august 1830 Brussels (and other Belgian cities) were in turmoil against the ‘Dutch occupation’.
On the 23rd of September the Dutch army, under command of Willem’s son Frederik, entered Brussels. Fights broke out in the city center and after 4 days the Dutch army fled Brussels.
A victory for the Belgian patriots and one step closer to Belgian independence.
Best day of my life
En daarmee ook de pindasaus
Completely in French. Shameful.
What would the result be if we were still one country?
We would be the smallest powerhouse in the world