 Around the same time, a British-Russian force invaded the North Holland peninsula (see further Anglo-Russian invasion of Holland).The crews of the Batavian war ships could see that in the distance, orange flags were being raised on the forts and church steeples of allied-overrun Den Helder as a sign of loyalty to the House of Orange-Nassau.Mutiny broke out on a number of ships, including Van Braam's ship, the "Leyden".