We prepared for battle today. We would make our final assault on the Muiden Castle. We believed that Prince Willy V of Orange was hiding in Count Floris V's castle. The castle was heavily fortified and situated behind a moat with two major waterways guarding its flanks and rear. It was important that we strategize with our new Dutch friends before we began our attack.
Our knights dressed themselves up in their chainmail, breastplates, and helmets, while our young squires pulled down their batman masks and grabbed their wooden cudgels. I mean swords. Suitably dressed and with a proper plan of attack we began the forced march to the castle.
We attacked from all sides. Some of our army were like para-tree-troopers, swooping into the castle from the plum tree field that grew to the rear of the castle. The rest of our army made the main assault over the castle's obstacles and under its murder-holes. Many brave men were lost this day but the operation was a success.
We gained access to the main gate, lowered the draw bridge, and the rest of our army flooded in. It turns out that
Prince Willy V had already fled to England, but
Count Floris was captured by our mob and promptly executed. Our action was a success, and the
Batavian Republic was established.
An interesting fact is that the French Revolutionary Tri-Color flag takes its inspiration from the older tri-color flag of The Netherlands. The Netherlands has the tri-color horizontal, and the French Republic's tri-color is vertical. Soviet Russia, which used the tune of the Marseilles for its national anthem, was replaced by the Russian Federation, which also uses the tri-color flag but with a different order of the red, white, and blue.
Lastly, we celebrated our successful Revolutions in both France and The Netherlands with fireworks for our Second Lieutenant's 12th Birthday.
Tomorrow we return to France to ensure the downfall of Robespierre and secure safe passage for our trip back to the New World.
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