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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