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.
from 18 to 25 must
immediately join the army. 
Menin retaken by General Beaulieu.
17.  The French fail in their attempt to pass the Rhine
at Huningen. 
Decreed, that all former nobles and relations of
emigrants, shall be considered as suspected, and be
imprisoned. 
Engagement between the Spaniards and French; the
former retire with loss.
18.  The royalists near Saumur take the flying artillery
of the republicans.
19.  The siege of Lyons is commenced. 
Decreed, that all women shall carry tickets of
civism, and wear a three-coloured cockade. 
Collot d’Herbois proposes to seize and bury all
counter-revolutionists under the land of liberty,
by means of mines. 
Barrere proposes to banish all those who are averse
to republican government.
20.  Decreed, that the vulgar aera (sic) be abolished,
and that a new manner be adopted of dividing days
and years, to be called the Republican Calendar. 
The French attack the Duke of Brunswick, and are
repulsed near Bitche; several actions take place in
consequence.
21.  Decreed, that no produce or manufacture of England
shall be imported into France or the colonies, but
in French bottoms; nor foreign ships convey the
commodities of France from one French port to
another, under pain of confiscation.
22.  A great number of persons of distinction arrested. 
The King of Prussia leaves his army, and returns to
Berlin. 
The Prussians make the French to retreat in the
dutchy (sic) of Deux-ponts. 
Two thousand millions of assignats issued.
29.  Prince Cobourg passes the Sambre, and invests
Maubeuge. 
Decreed that all fathers and mothers shall inform
where their children, in a state of requisition,
are concealed. 
Barrere proposes, that as the French nation has
proclaimed liberty to the earth, it should proclaim
liberty also to the sea. 
Madame Du Barry, General Houchard, General
Quetinau, and Marshal Luckner, are prisoners in the
Abbaye. 
The Duchesses of Grammont and of Chatelet, with
many other nobles, are imprisoned in the Hotel de
la Force. 
The number of prisoners in Paris is 2560. 
The Queen remains in a dungeon of the Conciergerie,
her trial not yet commenced; nor that of the
deputies, who were put out of the protection of the
law.  Brissot, and others, taken and carried to
Paris.
Oct. 1.  The French obtain a victory over the Sardinians in
the Tarentaise, and in Maurienne.  On the side of
Saorgio, the Sardinians have some advantages over
the French. 
A great number of members are arrested in the very
convention, and delivered to the revolutionary
tribunal. 
Drouet, who stopped the King at Varennes, falls
into the hands of the Austrians. 
The constitutional bishop of Derdogne (sic)
presents his new wife to the convention.
6.  Gorsas, a member of the convention,
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