Draft:Capture of Sainte-Walburge

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Capture of Sainte-Walburge
Part of the Liège Revolution
Date18 August 1789
Location
City and province of Liège
Result Liège insurgent victory
Belligerents
Liège rebels Habsburg monarchy
Commanders and leaders
Jean-Remy de Chestret
Jacques-Joseph Fabry
Jean-Nicolas Bassenge
César de Hoensbroeck
Holy Roman Empire Emperor Leopold II


On 18 August 1789, Jean-Nicolas Bassenge and other democrats met at the hôtel de ville, demanding the magistrates' dismissal and their replacement with the popular mayors Jacques-Joseph Fabry and Jean-Remy de Chestret. The citadel of Sainte-Walburge fell to the insurgents and Hoensbroeck was dragged from his summer palace at Seraing to ratify the election of the new aediles and to abolish the 1684 ruling.


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Further reading[edit]

  • Raxhon, Philippe, ed. (1989). La révolution liégeoise de 1789, vue par les historiens belges de 1805 à nos jours. Bruxelles: Editions de l'Université de Bruxelles. ISBN 9782800409733.
  • La Révolution liégeoise de 1789. Liège: Crédit communal. 1989. ISBN 9782871930785.
  • Droixhe, Daniel (2007). Une histoire des Lumières au pays de Liège: livre, idées, société. Liège: Éditions de l'Université de Liège. ISBN 9782874-560361.