Qualla: Vlieter Incident https://qualla.com/vlieter-incident en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:34 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Vlieter Incident https://qualla.com/vlieter-incident Vlieter Incident: Introduction https://qualla.com/vlieter-incident/ Twelve warships. Hundreds of guns. Not one of them fired. On the morning of 30 August 1799, the Batavian Republic's North Sea squadron lay at anchor in the Vlieter, a tidal trench between Texel and the village of Wieringen, while their officers debated whether to defend a country half of them no longer believed in. By nightfall, every Dutch warship in those waters belonged to the British - and Holland's revolutionary republic had suffered the most disgraceful naval surrender in its history.

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]]> Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/7/s/vlieter-incident-wp/u17s-vlieter-incident-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Vlieter Incident: A Republic Divided Against Itself https://qualla.com/vlieter-incident/ Five years earlier, French armies had swept the Stadtholder, William V, from the Netherlands and proclaimed the Batavian Republic in his place. The old House of Orange fled to England. The Dutch fleet was reorganized, retrained, sworn to a new flag - but loyalty does not change w...

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]]> Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/7/s/vlieter-incident-wp/u17s-vlieter-incident-a-republic-divided-against-itself.mp3 0:06 2 full Vlieter Incident: The Wind Refuses to Cooperate https://qualla.com/vlieter-incident/ Schout-bij-nacht Samuel Story commanded the squadron that withdrew into the Zuiderzee as British troops landed unopposed near Den Helder. On 28 August he tried to bring his ships back out to fight. The wind refused. His captains anchored in the Vlieter roadstead and watched, mile...

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]]> Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/7/s/vlieter-incident-wp/u17s-vlieter-incident-the-wind-refuses-to-cooperate.mp3 0:06 3 full Vlieter Incident: An Hour to Decide https://qualla.com/vlieter-incident/ Story tried to play for time. He dispatched two captains under a flag of truce to the British admiral Andrew Mitchell, asking for a temporary ceasefire so he could restore discipline and await fresh orders from The Hague. It was, he insisted afterward, a ruse - a delaying tactic,...

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]]> Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/7/s/vlieter-incident-wp/u17s-vlieter-incident-an-hour-to-decide.mp3 0:06 4 full Vlieter Incident: A Flag They Refused to Raise https://qualla.com/vlieter-incident/ One detail mattered enormously to the officers, and almost nothing to the men who would write the verdict on this day in Dutch history. The captains agreed to strike their colours, but they refused to hoist the Orange flag in its place. They were surrendering, not defecting. Mitc...

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]]> Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/7/s/vlieter-incident-wp/u17s-vlieter-incident-a-flag-they-refused-to-raise.mp3 0:06 5 full Vlieter Incident: The Court-Martial and the Long Memory https://qualla.com/vlieter-incident/ The Anglo-Russian invasion that the Vlieter surrender was supposed to unlock collapsed within weeks. The Dutch civilian population did not rise for the Prince. The Batavian army, fighting alongside French troops, held the line at Bergen and Castricum. The Allies evacuated North H...

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