Author
Govaerts; Sander
Year
2021
Publisher
Arc Humanities Press
Language
English
Pages
19
ISBN
978-1-64189-398-5
Last Update
04-Sep-2024
Keywords
Military Studies ; History ; European Studies ; Ecology & Evolutionary Biology ; General Science ; Geography
AT A HILL named SintPietersberg, just outside Maastricht, around the year 1780 labourers digging out limestone found the skull of a large creature resembling a whale or giant crocodile. It belonged to an animal that measured fifteen to seventeen metres in length. This remarkable specimen, the “Grand Animal de Maastricht,” had reached such fame by 1794 that the Commissaires des Sciences et des Arts present with the Army of the Sambre and Meuse, which had invaded the Austrian Netherlands to spread the ideas of the French Revolution, ordered soldiers to search and confiscate it from its right ful owner. They...
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