Orangists

Orangists

The Orangists were a political faction in the Netherlands and Belgium in the second half of the eigtheenth century. They defended the House of Orange against the Patriots who challenged the Stadtholder regime.In Belgium the faction survived well into the 1830s, strongly opposing the Belgian Revolution and rallying against independence.


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