Incorporation (Netherlands)

Next year, the Dutch territories south of the Rhine were added into the growing empire of Napoleon.

He gave the order to his confidant Charles-François Lebrun to oversee the transition of the French rule in the former kingdom as a Lieutenant General.

In the Decree of Rambouillet of November 9, 1810, the official incorporation act, the structure of the Kingdom of Holland was largely kept intact.

[6] When Napoleon lost the Battle of Leipzig in the autumn of 1813, the Dutch departments were, a month later, invaded by Russian Cossacks and Prussian troops.

The Dutch politician Gijsbert Karel van Hogendorp issued a proclamation for the independence of the Netherlands and making an end to the Incorporation.

The son of the last stadtholder, William Frederick, returned to the Netherlands to become the first sovereign of the country.

The troops in these divisions were responsible for the defense of the area they were stationed, maintaining public order and monitored compliance the laws of conscription and the continental system.