One episode during this event occurred when a gunboat was driven into an enemy-held port by a storm. When the enemy then demanded the gunboat's surrender, the commander threw his lit cigar into the gunpowder magazine. This event began after a performance of The Mute Girl of Portici. In the aftermath of this event, a partition plan proposed by Charles Maurice de Talleyrand was rejected, and a final settlement was not reached until the 1839 Treaty of London. A French army led by Ã‰tienne Maurice G
One episode during this event occurred when a gunboat was driven into an enemy-held port by a storm. When the enemy then demanded the gunboat's surrender, the commander threw his lit cigar into the gunpowder magazine. This event began after a performance of The Mute Girl of Portici. In the aftermath of this event, a partition plan proposed by Charles Maurice de Talleyrand was rejected, and a final settlement was not reached until the 1839 Treaty of London. A French army led by Ã‰tienne Maurice GÃ©rard intervened to halt the Ten Days' Campaign, which attempted to end this event. This event saw the reins of provisional leadership assumed by Charles Latour Rogier and Erasme Louis Surlet de Chokier, but they were succeeded by Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg, much to the dismay of King William I of Orange. The United Kingdom of the Netherlands broke apart during, for 10 points, what 1830 event that saw the establishment of an independent nation following popular uprisings in cities such as Antwerp and Brussels?
One episode during this event occurred when a gunboat was driven into an enemy-held port by a storm.
Belgian Revolution of 1830 [accept equivalents such as "Belgian War of Independence"; (anti-)prompt on Ten Days' Campaign until mention]