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Quintidi 15 Pluviôse

Quintidi 15 Pluviôse, jour de la vache
cow day

Calendrier Militaire

An troisième.

Army of Western Pyrenees.
Sauret, commanding officer.
Capture of Roses, after a 27-day siege; a part of the garrison surrenders, with 60 guns; 541 prisoners.

Army of the North.
Pichegru, general-in-chief.


Conquest of Holland: all fortified places and the warships are controlled by the French. The French troops enter Midelbourg and Flesingue.

Comments

A famous anecdot marks this day: the Helder bay was frozen and Pichegru's cavalrymen have charged against the ships locked in the ice. Or did they? Many sources doubt that such a feat did ever happen. You can notice that the description above says nothing about cavalry charges, only that Pichegru's army took control of the ships.


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