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    An exercitiegenootschap (Dutch pronunciation: [ɛksərˈsitsi.ɣəˌnoːtsxɑp], exercise company) or militia was a military organisation in the 18th century Netherlands...
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    latter was the city of Utrecht where under the direction of the exercitiegenootschap Pro Patria et Libertate (in which the student leader Quint Ondaatje...
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  • corps created by the Danish Nazi Party (DNSAP) Freikorps Sauerland Exercitiegenootschap, private military and military training organisation in the 18th...
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    The exercitiegenootschap of Sneek...
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    Drenthe and member of the region's diet. He was also colonel of the exercitiegenootschap of the village of De Wijk, but after the Batavian Revolution was...
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  • in Groningen, Franeker and Amsterdam, he led the local militia (exercitiegenootschap) in Wijk bij Duurstede and ended up in captivity. Van der Kemp was...
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    Wijbo Fijnje made a constitution for Leiden, helped found the local exercitiegenootschap, a drill society, and helped draft the celebrated Leiden Draft. In...
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    of the first Patriots as a student in Leiden. As the leader of an exercitiegenootschap, he suppressed an insurrection of Orangist students in June 1784...
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    city government of Leiden prohibited the activities of the Leiden exercitiegenootschap and fined its drill master. This elicited a reaction by both the...
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    type-founder, Patriot and active colonel in a local militia (in Dutch exercitiegenootschap). In 1794 he became the agent for the Holland Land Company in New...
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    Orangist party) was court-martialed and put under house arrest. The exercitiegenootschap took over Delft's ammunition and weapons store (largest in the Republic)...
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    schutterij in the Turkije company. As such he got engaged in the exercitiegenootschap-movement that was important in Patriot politics. De Post published...
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    cancelled his visit. In May 1787 was discharged for his membership of an exercitiegenootschap. He was appointed in Utrecht (in Natural law), then a democratic...
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