sentences:  Mappa made a brave show of defending Naarden but once again with the peculiarly Dutch show for legality, receiving orders from the now counter-revolutionised States of Holland, capitulated on the 27th.On 9 October 1787, the patriots were forced to hand in their unit weapons in Amsterdam and Mappa fled like so many others to northern France.With a few friends, like Johan Valckenaer and Herman Willem Daendels he rented an uninhabited castle in Watten.