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.
At   Antwerp          10,000,000
Ghent             7,000,000
Brussels          5,000,000
Bruges            4,000,000
Mechlin           1,260,076
Lierre              500,000
Oudenarde           500,000
Ipres             1,000,000
Alost             4,000,000
Ostend            2,000,000
Courtray          3,000,000
Ath                 150,000
Mons              1,640,875
Louvain           2,000,000
Namur             5,000,000
Huy                 126,171
Total 51,177,122

12.  The Russians entirely defeat the Poles under
Kosciusko, and take Warsaw. 
The French take Worms; and pass the Rhine.
20.  The British and Dutch defeated on the banks of the
Meuse.
25.  The French take Coblentz and Venloo. 
Six thousand young women put in requisition in
Brabant to attend the hospitals. 
The states of Holland openly abandon the interests
of the Stadtholder. 
Great numbers of emigrants shot at Ipres, Neuport,
and l’Ecluse. 
Freron, the journalist, attacks furiously in the
convention the remains of Robespierre’s party. 
Proclamation by General Washington to check the
buds of rebellion in America. 
Assignats burned to the 30th of September last,
amounted to 2,367,000,000 livres. 
All public ordinances by the representatives of the
people begin in this form, “The thunder of God:  in
“the name of the representatives of the people, it
“is commanded under pain of death, &c.” 
Address from the court of Madrid to stimulate the
Spanish nation against the French. 
Motion by Baraillon to imprison all those who have
had national property conveyed to them under its
value, and those who have laid waste the lands and
houses of emigrants and of condemned persons; and
all those who have misapplied public money. 
Decree to abolish the jacobin club.
Nov. 4.  Rhinfeld surrenders at discretion; Maestricht by
capitulation. 
Nimeguen surrenders. 
French commissaries proclaim liberty at Martinico. 
Billaud Varennes endeavours in vain to revive the
jacobins. 
The convention offers full pardon to the rebels of
La Vendee who will lay down their arms and serve
the republic. 
Guadaloupe is retaken by the French. 
Cambon reports that assignats in circulation amount
to 6,400,000,000 of livres, and the expence of the
present year to 2,200,000,000 livres. 
Addresses of congratulation from all parts on the
overthrow of the jacobins.
17.  The Spaniards defeated by the French. 
Republican General Dugommier killed.
20.  The Spaniards again defeated—­three generals taken. 
St. Fernard, Figueras, and Aspaetta, surrender.
30.  Grave surrenders to the French. 
Carrier and his bloody accomplices decreed to be in
a state of accusation. 
Decreed, that all emigrants be for ever banished
from the republic, their property confiscated, and
their return punished with death.

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