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Pichegru began his second campaign by crossing the Meuse on 18 October, and, after taking Nijmegen, drove the Austrians beyond the Rhine.

Then, instead of going into winter quarters, he prepared his army for a winter campaign.

On 27 December three brigades crossed the Meuse on the ice, and stormed the Bommelerwaard.

On 10 January the army crossed the Waal near Zaltbommel, entered Utrecht on 13 January, which surrendered on the 16th.

The Prussian and the British army withdraw behind the IJssel and fled to Hanover and Bremen.

Pichegru, who succeeded in avoiding the frozen Dutch Water Line arrived in Amsterdam on 20 January, after a velvet revolution had taken place.

The French occupied the rest of the Dutch Republic in the next month.