biography
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William V (Batavus)
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| lived:
| (1748–1806)
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| biography:
| Dutch ruler, the son of William IV and Anne of Hanover. He married Wilhelmina of Prussia in 1767. He was under the regency of his mother and uncle until his majority in 1766, when he was installed as Stadtholder of the United Provinces. He was an ineffective ruler, and after reverses in the fourth Anglo-Dutch War he was deprived of his military commands and retired to Het Loo; in the face of the revolutionary activities of the patriots he left it to his wife to get help from Prussia. When the French under Pichegru invaded, he fled to England, from where he complained about his eviction and raised a force of volunteers for the English invasion of Holland in 1799. In 1801 he moved to Nassau, and died in Brunswick. |
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