Isaac van Goudoever

This was opposed by the four other colonels, but Van Goudoever obtained the same objective (probably on the instigation of the Patriot burgemeester Hendrik Daniëlsz Hooft) by simply leading 60 officers (mostly lieutenants) to the session of the city council on 21 February 1787 in the City Hall, where they were discussing the question whether Amsterdam would agree to having the so-called "Legion of Salm"[Note 5] move to The Hague, the seat of both the States of Holland and the States General of the Netherlands.

The officers presented a petition, supporting the proposal under discussion, which was read out loud by captain Gales, the right hand of Van Goudoever.

They then departed, but van Goudoever forced the secretary of the krijgsraad, Backer, to enter in the minutes that the next session would be convened on 21 March.

On 26 February they had forced their way into the antechamber of the room where the vroedschap was in session to discuss the proposal to allow the "Legion of Salm" to move to The Hague.

This was sufficient ground for van Goudoever to propose their dismissal from the schutterij on 18 April and their replacement with four new colonels, this time with Patriot sympathies.

Thirteen captains resigned in protest, and this more or less completed the conversion of the officer corps of the Amsterdam schutterij to the Patriot cause.

[7] After this van Goudoever apparently took a less active role, leaving the actual Coup d'état of 20–21 April, in which the faction around Dedel was purged from the city government, to the younger officers and burgemeester Hooft.

Nevertheless, van Goudoever remained president of the krijgsraad until the Prussian invasion of Holland in September, and the fall of the city on 10 October.