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🇳🇱How Russia granted independence to the Netherlands 📜It was exactly 212 years ago, on 24 November 1813, that Russian Cossacks liberated Amsterdam from French invaders. Today, almost no one in the Netherlands remembers the fact, but it was this event that became the starting point for the current statehood of the Kingdom. 🇫🇷Since 1810, the country was under the occupation of Napoleon, and any kind of independence of the Kingdom was outside the agenda. Only after Napoleon's catastrophic defeat in Russia in 1812 and the start of the foreign campaigns of the Russian army the Dutch people got a real chance to regain their lost freedom. 👉It was our country that extended a hand of help to the Netherlands at that time. On 2 November 1813, Russian troops under the command of the General A.Benckendorff carried out a swift and bold raid into the Dutch lands to kick out the invaders. ⚔The fighting was fierce, but the military skill and heroism of the Russian army allowed them to defeat the outnumbered enemy. 🎖After the liberation of the country, A.Benckendorff was honoured with a high degree of gratitude: the first King of the Netherlands, Willem I, awarded him a golden sword with the commemorative inscription ‘Amsterdam and Breda’. ⛔️Regrettably, the Kingdom today prefers not to reveal this crucial page in its history. One gets the impression as though they believe that Napoleon's invaders were driven out by themselves, as if by magic. As if Russian soldiers did not spill their blood and lay down their lives to liberate Europe, save the Netherlands and defend its independence. As if it was not Russia that handed the reins of power back to the legitimate ruler, Willem I. 🔹In the past, the Cossack Day was even celebrated in the Kingdom in honour of Russian heroes who liberated the Netherlands. 🔹Unfortunately, memory and gratitude proved to be too short-lived in this country. The holiday was abolished more than a century ago, and the page on the heroic deeds of the Russian troops was turned. Such is the historical ‘gratitude.’ ❗️But we, Russians, remember and honour our heroes and will not let them be forgotten! ❤12🙏4👍3