Original Dutch Belgian Revolution Oil Painting Portrait of Public Hero Jan van Speyk in Original Frame - c. 1830 - 37¼ x 44⅝” Category_MG 42 Display Guns & Part Sets the 698-strong battalion was deployed

the 698-strong battalion was deployed in square at the point where the Ohain road crossed the Charleroi to Brussels highway

the 79th Regiment took terrible casualties in this battle

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The two loose lenses are both dated 15

Original Dutch Belgian Revolution Oil Painting Portrait of Public Hero Jan van Speyk in Original Frame - c. 1830 - 37¼ x 44⅝” Category_MG 42 Display Guns & Part Sets the 698-strong battalion was deployedOriginal Item. One of a Kind. Jan Carel Josephus van Speyk (31 January 1802 5 February 1831) was a Royal Netherlands Navy officer who became a public hero in the Netherlands for his opposition to the Belgian Revolution. When the Belgian Revolution began, Van Speyk was given command of Gunboat No. 2. Van Speyk despised the Belgian independence movement, and he said he would rather die "than become an infamous Brabander". Born in Amsterdam in 1802, Van