Historical Epochs of the French Revolution eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 215 pages of information about Historical Epochs of the French Revolution.

Historical Epochs of the French Revolution eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 215 pages of information about Historical Epochs of the French Revolution.
income is said to have
been between three and four hundred thousand a
year. 
Gen. Dampierre forms the camp of Famars, the French
having retired from Holland. 
Great debates in the convention on the subject of a
petition from 35 sections of Paris, against the
chiefs of the Mountain. 
The English take the island of Tobago. 
General Miaczinski, Compte (sic) d’Arenberg, and le
Compte Linanges, sent to the Abbaye at Paris, to
answer for the safety of the commissioners.
12.  A long and violent tumult in the convention,
because the members come intoxicated.
13.  Marat escapes from prison, and writes an insulting
letter to the convention; decree of accusation
against him.
15.  Thirty-five sections of Paris demand the deposition
of Brissot, and twenty other members of the
convention. 
Marat remains concealed, but his journal appears
every day. 
Weissenau is destroyed by heavy artillery;
Dampierre makes a vigorous resistance.  A battle
between Valenciennes and Conde. 
The garrison of Lisle makes a powerful sortie. 
Dumourier is allowed no part in the operations
against France; at Frankfort he publishes his
contempt for Egalite, and respect for his sons.
21.  The Elector of Mayence addresses a letter of thanks
to his subjects.  The bishop of Liege returns to
his dominions. 
The French make themselves masters of Mont-Beliard. 
America declares for neutrality. 
Count d’Artois goes to Petersburgh (sic). 
The Spaniards obtain considerable advantages near
Perpignan. 
The royalists of La Vendee publish a manifesto,
against whom the convention orders twenty thousand
men to march. 
Treaty between Great-Britain and Russia; another
between Great-Britain and Sardinia. 
Great disorders at Marseilles and Aix.
28.  The archduke Charles makes a solemn entry into
Brussels, as governor-general of the Low Countries;
400 citizens draw his coach. 
Kellerman deposed from his command by the
convention. 
The Emperor reproaches the Elector of Bavaria with
his neutrality, in a remarkable note. 
Engagement between the French and Austrians near
Landau. 
Dampierre declares that only 800 men accompanied
Dumourier. 
Marat suffers himself to be conducted to prison. 
The revolutionary tribunal acquits Marat; he is
conducted in triumph to the convention by the mob,
who force themselves into the seats of the members. 
The commissioners of the convention, at Marseilles,
are obliged to fly. 
The French make a brisk sally from Mayence. 
An insurrection at Breslau, raised by a taylor,
(sic) and not suppressed without cannon.
30.  Decreed, that the revolutionary tribunal shall be
suspended till the 1st of June next.
May 1.  Dampierre gives a bloody battle, to keep up a
communication between Conde and Valenciennes. 
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