sentences:  (The removals found place under the threat of a Prussian ultimatum and before the raid).The purge in Delft not only brought Wybo Fijnje, the editor of a patriot newspaper and the auto-didact Gerrit Paape to power in the city, but delivered to the Patriots one of the biggest arsenals and magazines in the Republic.His army went to defend Woerden in the east of the province of Holland, but had no chance to win against 20,000 well trained Prussian soldiers.