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Nonidi 29 Floréal

Nonidi 29 Floréal, jour du sénevé
sénevé day (provisional translation)

Calendrier Militaire

Year II.

Army of the North.
Thierry, commanding officer.
Enemy defeat at Moescroen;

its fieldworks are stormed: capture of 4 guns; 400 prisoners.
Souham, commanding officer.
Battle won against the coalised, between Menin and Courtray; the Duke of York flees hastily: capture of 65 guns: many enemies killed.

Army of the Ardennes.
Dufour, commanding officer of the battalion of the Bar.
Glorious resistance by 1500 French who stand against the advance of 14,000 Austrians towards Cunfoz. 150 young men from the first draft show their value by holding the whole right wing of Beaulieu's army before Bouillon.

Army of Western Pyrenees.
Dupeiron, battalion commander.
Capture of 6 enemy stores for a value of more than a million. Breaking of the waterlocks of the royal mast factory: capture of much cattle.


Muler, general-in-chief.
Spanish rout, after being attacked by bayonet up to their camp of Berra, with considerable losses.


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