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Septidi 7 Floréal

Septidi 7 Floréal, jour du muguet
lily of the valley day

Calendrier Militaire

Year II.

Army of Western Pyrenees.
Harispe, commanding officer.


The Spaniards and Emigrates rout, repulsed from the posts of Arnéguy and Irameaca; 80 enemies killed, 17 prisoners.

Army of the Ardennes.
Charbonnié, Desjardins, generals, commanding officers.
Victory, after a harsh 4-hour resistance. Capture of the highgrounds of Bossu; important enemy losses, the Army of the Ardennes and the Army of the North enter the town of Beaumont and link with each other.

Army of the North.
Pichegru, general-in-chief.
Daendels, commanding officer.
Capture of Courtray, after a general battle on the whole frontline from Dunkirk to Givet; capture of 3 guns and several stores.

Army of Eastern Pyrenees.
Harispe, commanding officer.
The French take the post of the Arrola Rock.


Mauco, commanding officer.
4000 Spanish infantrymen and 10 Spanish cavalry squadrons rout at Roqueluche; important enemy losses.

Other events

7 Floréal VI Birth of Eugène Delacroix, painter of the picture "The Liberty leading the People", a well-known revolutionary painting, yet this picture describes a XIXth century revolution, not the 1792 one.


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