- Orangism, with
supporters known as
Orangists, may
refer to one of
several political movements:
Orangism (Dutch Republic), a
loosely defined current in...
-
compromise candidate,
maintaining good
relations with all factions, even the
Orangists. He was a
competent administrator, but of
necessity a
colourless personage...
- the head of state. This
created tension between political factions: the
Orangists favoured a
powerful stadtholder,
while the
Republicans favoured a strong...
-
Prussia for help, and in 1787 a
relatively small Prussian army
restored the
Orangists to
power with
little fighting. But
after the
French Revolution began in...
-
underwent a
political transition: the city
governments were
taken over by
Orangists,
opposed to the
republican regime of the
Grand Pensionary Johan de Witt...
- a
number of
years the
Orangists were in
charge under Maurice and
later his
brother Frederick Henry,
Prince of Orange.
Orangists such as the Vice-Admiral...
- stadtholder,
William V,
Prince of Orange, and his
supporters who were
known as
Orangists (Orangisten). In 1781 one of the
leaders of the Patriots, Joan Derk van...
-
particularly concentrated in
Ghent and Liège. Some of the most
prominent Flemish Orangists were Jan
Frans Willems and
Hippolyte Metdepenningen.
Although refusing...
-
endorsed the
policy of
active support of the "British"
party (i.e. the
Orangists) in the Republic,
together with a
campaign of subversion,
espoused by...
-
natural allies against the pro-English
Orangists. He
wanted to
simply annex Holland and
hoped that fear of the
Orangists would cause the
regenten to surrender...
