Calendrier Militaire
Year II.
United Armies of Moselle, the Ardennes, and the North.
Devaux, Bois-Gérard, commanding officers.
While under enemy cannon fire,
the French capture and destroy a
redoubt near Charleroy, after having
vigorously repulsed the
garrison.
Devaux, adjutant-general, commanding officer.
In less than 10 minutes, the French capture
the redoubt beside the Brussels road before
Charleroy; the first
battalion of Lower Rhine repulses
vigorously a sortie by the garrison of Charleroy.
Year III.
Army of Eastern Pyrenees.
Schérer, general-in-chief.
Battle of la Fluvia; rout of 28,000
Spaniards who had come
to attack foraging French in the St.-Père-Pescador plain; after a 10-hour fight, they withdraw across the Fluvia in great disorder; 1200 enemy casualties; many prisoners, 300 chariots of corn return to the Riurors camp.
Year IV.
Army of Sambre and Meuse.
Bernadotte, division general, commanding officer.
6 grenadiers companies capture Nassau,
the Rohan legion, 70 men killed, as many
wounded, and 12 prisoners.
Army of the Rhine and Moselle.
Moreau, general-in-chief.
The Austrian fieldworks between
Franckental and le Rehut, are stormed by the
French; 700 enemy casualties,
200 prisoners.
