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.
                  supplementary days of the republican calendar. 
                  General Clairfait marches towards Cologn (sic), and
                  passes the Roar (sic). 
                  The French invest Maestricht, and take possession
                  of Aix-la-Chapelle, Malmedi, and Spa. 
                  Balloons are used by the French to make
                  observations of their enemy’s proceedings. 
                  Twenty-nine waggons loaded with gold and silver, to
                  the value of 18,359,404 livres are brought to Paris
                  from Belgium. 
                  The throne of the Elector of Treves is among the
                  spoils.
             25.  A national festival is celebrated at Paris on
                  account of the evacuation of the French territory
                  by the enemy.
             27.  Crevecoeur surrenders by capitulation to the
                  French.
             30.  The allies still continue to retreat. 
                  Decreed, that all directories and all municipal
                  bodies of the republic shall be purified; and all
                  revolutionary committees reorganized.
Oct. 1.  General Clairfait passes the Rhine. 
                  Keyserslautern taken by the Prussians.
              3.  The French enter Juliers.  The body of Rousseau
                  transferred to the Pantheon.
              4.  Bommel and Bois-le-Duc surrender to the French. 
                  The garrison of Nimeguen sallies, and kills 2000
                  French. 
                  Proclamation of the Prince of Orange, exhorting the
                  Dutch to resist the enemy in a body (en masse.)
              5.  Lyons permitted to resume its name—­confiscation,
                  and massacres are suspended there.
              6.  The convention addresses the French people to
                  acquaint them that henceforward the order of the
                  day shall be “severe, but not atrocious or
                  “sanguinary justice.” 
                  Pichegru makes himself master of Cologne, Gueldres,
                  and Cleves. 
                  French soldiers who died this campaign in the
                  hospitals at Lisle, amount to 47,000. 
                  The English pass the Rhine.  The French enter
                  Bonne (sic). 
                  The chiefs of the royal and catholic armies in
                  Bretagne make a solemn appeal, to the French
                  people, to incite them to rally about the standards
                  of religion and of the King. 
                  The following contributions were levied by the
                  French in Brabant: 
          
                                                    Livres.

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