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.
Deputies from Nantes require support from the
convention; they announce, that the war of La
Vendee has already cost the lives of 2000 patriots.
3.  The King of Prussia, after several bloody fights,
with various success, drives the French from
Costheim. 
Sallies are made every day from Valenciennes; Gen.
Mack is wounded in the arm. 
Great fire in the port and magazines of
l’Orient (sic). 
Twelve hundred millions of assignats issued. 
Melancholy accounts laid before the convention, of
the wretched state of the interior parts of France.
6.  Houchard attacks the Austrians near Landau. 
The garrison of Mayence, and the camp of Famars,
make a sally; a number of men killed.
8.  A warm attack at Costheim. 
A battle also at Longwy. 
This day was a day of general fighting, in all the
armies.
9.  General Dampierre dies of his wounds.  Lamarche
takes the temporary command.
10.  The convention holds its first sitting in the hall
of the Tuilleries, now called the National Palace. 
Battle of Hasnon.  The convention is disposed to
grant to Dampierre the honour of the Pantheon; but
Danton proposed, and carried a decree, that no one
should obtain that honour till 20 years after his
death.
7.  Custine is appointed general of the northern army. 
The elector of Bavaria renounces his neutrality,
and orders his contingent of troops march. 
General Miranda is acquitted by the revolutionary
tribunal; and receives a civic crown from the
people. 
General Valence, who had gone over to the Austrians
with Dumourier, is ordered to quit the states of
the empire. 
Interrogatory of Philip Egalite at Marseilles. 
The popular tribunal, of Marseilles suspended,
because it was become more adverse to the jacobins
since the arrival of the Bourbons. 
General Miaczinski condemned to death by the
revolutionary tribunal. 
Santerre sent against the royalists of La Vendee. 
Kellerman recovers the esteem of the convention,
and is employed again in the armies.
17.  Custine attacks the Austrians near Landau with
30,000 men, and forces them to retire. 
General Wurmser repasses the Rhine. 
Every day there are skirmishes near Mayence. 
Miaczinski is executed—­his depositions against
Pethion, Gensonnet, and others, not being proved.
23.  The allies attack the camp of Famars, and the whole
line from Orchies to Maubeuge.  A bloody action
during the whole day.  The French secretly during
the night abandoned the camp of Famars. 
Riots in Paris, on account of the arrest of Hebert,
compiler of a gazette called Le-Pere-du-Chesne. 
Count d’Artois joins his brother at Ham. 
It appears that six patriotic merchants of Holland
had promised Dumourier four millions of florins,
provided he conquered the country. 
Le Gendre proposes to exclude from the convention
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