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Daendels Being Nice

(...) Pensions which the Governors-General were accustomed to pay to some widows in Batavia (...) Nevertheless, I proceeded to pay various pensions from my own purse, both in Batavia and in Samarang (the latter of which had previously been paid by the Governor of Java), until the government provided for them.

I don't think I've shared this, but omg this is so wholesome and cute 🥹 He respects woman fr fr like damn now I want to be one of the widows that he paid lol jk 😌 Anyways, that's all for now, thank you guys n have a great day, stay safe 🌙

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It's been awhile since the last "Adventure with Daendels" series haha, since it's my bday I had to brought them along when I have lunch w family ✨️ From now on, the Daendels doll is also in my family picture lol 😋

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Daendels Marriage Archives

So I managed to found two out of three evidences of Daendels marriage. My fault was the fact that I forgot to change the file name when I put it in my gallery so now I ended up forgetting which one is which 😭 the Kampen marriage tho in the pic it wrote 22 December (it looks like it imo) meanwhile from what I found it said 22 February so I'm not sure which one is right 😮‍💨

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Happy Birthday to Me ✨️

Well I don't really have anything crazy to share but here are some memes I've made like last night + a special thank you to @jel-randombooth for giving one of the best gifts I've ever received 🫡🥹

At first I was planning to cosplay Daendels, but things turn out different that makes me unable n don't have enough time to make it sadly 🥲 It's alright I guess haha, one day I will ok guys ^^ Hmm, I'm planning to post some extra memes today, some Daendels post ofc n perhaps order more Daendels merch lol 👀

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Daendels Letter to the Grand Chancellor of the Légion of Honor

In 1804

Translation could be wrong since this is a handwritten letter and I'm using an app to help me read it and words in italic means it might be wrong from what I know 🌙

H.W. Daendels, Lieutenant-General in the service of the Batavian Republic To His Excellency the Lord Grand Chancellor of the Légion d’honneur Monsieur le Grand Chancelier, Your Excellency the Minister of Foreign Relations has done me the honor of forwarding to me Your Excellency’s letter of 29 Vendémiaire, by which Your Excellency informed me that His Majesty the Emperor or the Grand Council has deigned to name me a Knight of the Légion d’honneur and, in addition, to grant me the Grand Eagle of the Order.

For two years (?) I have been condemned to retirement and oblivion; never would I have dared hope that, after the services I have rendered, I might merit so illustrious a token of honor, and be associated with all that is most glorious and great. It is a very great honor—one too considerable for me, given my health and the distance that separates me from His Majesty—but my gratitude is profound. From my solitude, this most flattering distinction gives me fresh regrets only that I am not more able to cooperate worthy of the honor accorded me as a combatant against the common enemy of our two nations. But if I have not had the good fortune to take part in those great enterprises, my gratitude will at least accompany them everywhere. I beg you, Monsieur le Grand Chancelier, to lay at His Majesty’s feet the assurances of my deep and most respectful gratitude for this highly flattering distinction.

I remain, with profound respect, Your Excellency’s most humble and very obedient servant,

H. W. Daendels

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Daendels Analysis Series (Patriot Era Part 4)

(...) Daendels should have had the supreme command of the entire Batavian army; he himself sought it and there was much that recommended it and made it possible: the Batavian army stood on his side; his military suitability was recognized by the French armies; Dumonceau was his friend and comrade-in-arms and many Dutch officers had complete confidence in the leadership of Daendels but all that did not help; because the government men of the Batavian Republic were too hostile to Daendels or were too ignorant to understand his worth

Daendels was a Dutch General; the French General should not be subordinate to a Dutch one. Brune became supreme commander; not a good choice, but not strange.

Daendels dared to take more upon himself, was more bold and independent in his actions than Abercrombie, and that is readily admitted.

(...) Daendels' division showed brilliant, extraordinary bravery in the battle at Calantsoog; that is proven by the work of the commander himself, by the testimony of friend and foe, by the great number of brave men who met their death here or who left the battlefield maimed or wounded.

Daendels fought as the bravest soldier and an enemy bullet killed the horse he was riding.

In the time of William the Fifth one had no right to judge severely, unless one was called Daendels. And Daendels too has been the victim of slander and of the blind party spirit which so often does not spare even the most excellent; not only in 1799, but also later his name has been attacked in the worst way; the slander of his enemies has not spared him either and not only his contemporaries have given the most improbable representations of his actions and insights (...)

Damn, it's sad that most of the time ppl never understood Daendels like the first point said ☹️ Maybe they find him too wild or js strange which surprisingly is mentioned quite some times in the analysis 👀 Lowkey I still believe that Daendels could be a time traveler lmao. Smth feels like he knows more than he let go 😦 But pls js take this theory as a grain of salt ofc. Anyway, that's all for now, thank you n have a great day, stay safe 🌙

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Daendels "kidnapping" in bread

On the occasion of the event 'Daendels 200 years', baker Willem from the Dutch Bakery Museum here has given shape to a legend about an abduction in bread. The story goes that Aleida van Vlierden was abducted by Daendels on a stormy night. She was taken to Lage, near Bentheim, where a preacher was found willing to marry the couple.

Out of anything I would never expect Daendels to be turned into a damn bread 💀 Man if I only I was born during those time I could've eaten the bread 🤤 Lowkey it didn't rlly look like Daendels or Aleida but hey I'll still devour it 😋

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Highlights of Napoleon Manga (Chapter 5)

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The day Indonesian ppl stops talking shi abt Daendels and stop misspronouncing his name is the day I die.

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My submit to a poster competition yey

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Daendels Analysis Series (Patriot Era Part 3)

(...) Kraijenhoff was Daendels' right-hand man in North Holland, his most knowledgeable and impartial judge; he knows how to value him. (...)

(...) Dumonceau; who was always a skilled and brave warrior, always an honourable comrade-in-arms of the former Mayor of Hattem (...)

(...) Daendels is one of the most strange and conspicuous people. His restless activity and his mad courage had raised him to Chief de Brigade in our army (...)

His rule is, "You can do anything you like," and therefore he gives the most absurd orders to accomplish the most impossible things; and woe betide anyone who dares to make sensible objections to him! Without respect to persons he answers every objection with the most contemptible insults, immediately threatens with shooting, and hands out slaps and blows. (...)

If this were the real character of the man; but it is absolutely nothing more than an assumed temper. He does not know how to punish where it is necessary; lets crimes that are unforgivable pass unpunished and deals with mistakes, which are minor, with the utmost severity...." This character sketch is not flattering; on the contrary; it bears all the characteristics of hostility and passionate exaggeration; and yet, even in this unfavorable sketch one finds features that show that Daendels was no ordinary commander. He is no ordinary commander, the man who knows how to convince his troops that they will do wonders without his leadership (...)

Such commanders are not found every day; such powerful, energetic characters, with a hundred flaws, are still far preferable to those weaklings who do not know what they want; (...) Do you think it a mortal sin in Daendels that on the battlefield, in order to inspire his soldiers, he dances under the enemy's fire? (...)

Daendels may have been somewhat impetuous, somewhat rough, somewhat reckless, but were not these qualities somewhat necessary in a newly formed army, an army without experience, where the personal bravery of the commander had to arouse the bravery of the troops and where only a strong language could keep those to their duty who did not know that duty or had no desire to fulfill it? (...)

One will not condemn Daendels' roughness so definitely. That this general leaves unforgivable crimes unpunished" is probably a completely untrue accusation (...)

he should have had supreme policy in his hands; that the successful outcome of that campaign was mainly due to him alone.

Point 4 accusation was made by one of Brune's staff as I remembered 😬 Sometimes I'm convinced that ppl talk shi abt Daendels bcs their jealous of him n saw his wild personality as an easy thing to bad talk abt lol 😮‍💨 But tbh, it's the reason why I like him haha. Hmm, I'm curious on where to get the Brune staff original mention, I know all of this came from Mendels so maybe I have to find it there 🫠 Anyway, that's all for now, thank you n have a great day guys, stay safe 🌙

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Idk if it's concerning that everytime I saw meme templates I only think abt Napjuno like what but it's alright tbh cus I like it

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Daendels Analysis Series (In the Indies Part 3)

he [Daendels] was a man of common sense, who did not adhere to outdated concepts, to the rules of old, but who with a clear vision, with accuracy and above all with strength of mind listened to the essential demands of a war and followed them up: the little that he was able to do for the defence of Java testifies very favourably to the much that could have been expected of him, had he stood there longer against the English; perhaps, then the outcome of the campaign of 1811 would have been completely different.

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Highlights of Napoleon Manga (Chapter 4)

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Daendels Analysis Series (Patriot Era Part 2)

(...) he [Daendels] strove to come to an equal footing with France by all possible means; he wanted to bring the stadholder's authority to fall, but only by his own strength (...)

Daendels was sincere and honest, wherever he dealt with the French military leaders or authorities (...)

Daendels was billeted with this man. Van Breugel has nothing but praise for his political opponent. He calls Daendels courteous, moderate and modest. The General harbored neither vengeance nor envy. His only goal was to ensure the peace and happiness of the Dutch people according to his principles. (...)

(...) one would probably do well to give more praise to Daendels' ability as a statesman than to his honesty in state actions: he knew, when necessary, to pretend to be something other than he really was; he knew how to change his language according to the people he was dealing with; in order to incite his countrymen to revolt he could use the most violent language; when he was in conversation with Van Breugel, one would have seen in him nothing but a calm and composed reasoning man, listening attentively to the objections made to him, and susceptible to conviction; he had, in a word, the art of hanging his hoods to the wind, so desirable for a diplomat.

Daendels was the great man; for no one could deny that he was the author of that great turnaround in our state life; and it is undoubted that, had he listened only to the voice of ambition, he could have exercised so much influence over his countrymen that power and greatness could have remained his for a long time. But Daendels stood too high to become a flatterer of the people (...)

General Dumonceau, who at the same time as him had passed from the French military service to the Batavian, remained a sincere follower of Daendels, a friend who, without any jealousy, recognized the superiority of the former mayor of Hattem and submitted to it.

If u guys are wondering, this was js in the second part of the analysis 😭 There's nine parts but I think all of them will only revolve around the patriot era (maybe Indies a little) since it was taking most of the references from Mendels book. Lowkey sometimes I find the language kinda hard to understand lol maybe I'm js dumb 💀

Aside from that, the first point kinda summarized Daendels goal in the patriot era. Many thinks that he fully depended on France all the time in trying to free the Netherlands but in reality, he wasn't. Yes he still need their help but he still wanted the Dutch ppl to free themselves. Get it? Damn it why is it hard for me to write my thoughts 😮‍💨 Anyway, that's js my opinion. Oh and on last point; it's finally confirmed that Dumonceau are Daendels friend yay 👀 That's all for now, thank you guys n have a great day, stay safe 🌙

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Highlights of Napoleon Manga (Chapter 3)

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Has all the academically based napoleonic blogs disappeared, or is my tumblr algorithm jacked?