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is almost certain that Bastrop did not serve in Frederick's army,
but his claim in later life to that effect are indicative of his great
admiration for the Prussian king.
Perhaps under different circumstances Bastrop's story would
have ended here, but several events took place in rapid succession
which were to tear him from his family and point his course
toward Texas. In July, 1789, the Bastille fell, and in August, 1792,
the French king was imprisoned. The French Revolution had
begun in earnest. Prussian and Austrian armies invaded France
to restore the monarch, but they were thrown back by the aroused
French citizens, who not only defended their country but soon
overran the whole of present-day Belgium. The Dutch revolu-
tionaries formed reading societies to plot rebellion in secret
against their own government, but they committed no overt acts
against their stadholder at that time. French forces remained on
the border of the Dutch Republic for two years; it was not until
January, 1795, that they successfully invaded, and indeed de-
stroyed, the Dutch Republic.
For the rest of his life Bastrop always gave the French invasion
of Holland as his reason for leaving the country. Actually Bastrop
was forced to leave Holland under circumstances different from
those he repeatedly related to Spanish officials. As Philip Hendrik
Nering Bogel, he was accused of embezzlement of tax funds in
1793, a crime for which he never stood trial. In fact, the Court of
Justice at Leeuwarden, the capital of the province of Friesland,
on June 1, 1793, offered a reward of one thousand gold Dutch
ducats to anyone who would deliver into its hands this fugitive
from justice.12
It was at this time that Bastrop assumed the title of baron and
changed the spelling of his surname. His movements for the next
year and a half, from June, 1793, to April, 1795, are not known.
There is a traditional story that he fled to America where he is
supposed to have lived with Charles Carroll of Carrollton, Mary-
land. It is a recorded fact that Charles Carroll, IV, the son of the
famous signer of the American Declaration of Independence,
with his younger sister Catherine Carroll, did leave Flanders
going by way of London, in the fall of 1794, bound for Balti-
12Geert Aeilco Wumkes (comp.), Stads- en dorpskroniek van Friesland (Leeu-
warden, 1930), I, 375-376.322
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