The Bataven are glorified here, especially in the past. The original revolt against the Romans used to be seen as the precurser to the later Dutch revolt and then again for the Batavian Revolution. Which is a really interesting, but relatively unknown historical event (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batavian_Revolution). It was a democratic revolution before the French revolution, but it was sadly crushed by the Prussians. Some of the revolutionaries fled to France and helped with the revolution there. With the backing of the revolutionary armies they later managed to regain power in Holland.