The Holy Roman Emperor Joseph II created a Belgian Office in Vienna to manage the Austrian rule of Belgium and led a wide-reaching programme of reforms. He impose his own policies in the internal affairs of the Church. Furthermore, he published a number of edicts reforming the law and administration of the territory with the aim of re-enforcing the power of the state.
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| - Battle of Turnhout (1789)
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| - The Holy Roman Emperor Joseph II created a Belgian Office in Vienna to manage the Austrian rule of Belgium and led a wide-reaching programme of reforms. He impose his own policies in the internal affairs of the Church. Furthermore, he published a number of edicts reforming the law and administration of the territory with the aim of re-enforcing the power of the state.
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Strength
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- 2500(xsd:integer)
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Date
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Commander
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- Johann Gottfried Freiherr von Schröder
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Casualties
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- 23(xsd:integer)
- 60(xsd:integer)
- 87(xsd:integer)
- 108(xsd:integer)
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Result
| - Belgian victory
*Austrian withdrawal from Belgium
*Creation of the United States of Belgium
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Place
| - Turnhout, Austrian Netherlands
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Conflict
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abstract
| - The Holy Roman Emperor Joseph II created a Belgian Office in Vienna to manage the Austrian rule of Belgium and led a wide-reaching programme of reforms. He impose his own policies in the internal affairs of the Church. Furthermore, he published a number of edicts reforming the law and administration of the territory with the aim of re-enforcing the power of the state. These laws were received reluctantly by the people and the church, the bourgeois however saw them as an attack on their democracy and civil rights. In response, a movement of protests against Austrian rule appeared. In January 1789, the states of Brabant and Hainaut refused to pay imperial taxes. The Imperial response was an occupation of the County of Hainaut and a suspension of the rights guaranteed to the Duchy of Brabant on 18 June 1789.
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