Batavia was founded in 1619 as the priveleged spot of the Dutch trade in
the East Indies. It provided one omphalos of an elliptical world wide web
of trade and exchange that constituted the Dutch empire. The other was Amsterdam.This
empire had been built on the Phoenecian model, and Bonrepaus accused the
Dutch of having built their fortune "upon the ruins of the Europeans
who had proceeded them, taking advantage of the trouble others had taken
to civilise the Indians, to domesticate them and give them the taste for
commerce".
This was not the site of the Batavian Revolution.
Batavia was founded in 1802 in Genese County, New York on the Tonawanda
creek. It is 11 miles from Attica. It gained worldwide prominence as the
home of William Morgan when he threatened to reveal Masonic Secrets in the
Batavian Republican Advocate,1826. His subsequent disappearance led
to the formation of the Anti-Masonic Party. This party was the focus of
anti-masonic propaganda which lead to the reduction of the number Masons
in New York state from 20,000 to 3,000 by the early 1830s.
This was not the site of the Batavian Revolution.
Batavia is a poetic name for The Netherlands
derived from the ancient Germanic tribe called the Batavi, whose district
was centred around Lugdunum,
now known as Leiden. It was
here that John Toland came to study in the late seventeenth century. However
it was in the 1780's that the Batavian Revolution
took place. Following a Prussian invasion Leiden eventually capitulated
to the Prussian troops on 10th october 1787. This precipitated a violent
and systematic reaction as Orange
mobs loyal to the Stadtholder, William V. Thousands of revolutionaries fled
including Florian Cramer.
Addendum:
The bourgeoisie have built the
most powerful existing proton accelerator, the Tevatron, at Fermilab in
batavia Illinois. This boosts protons to one trillion electron volts. This
will be super ceded by the Large Hadron Collider being built by CERN near
Geneva, home of Calvinism, Europe.
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