Custines, general-in-chief.
The French control the town of Spire,
after blowing the gates with cannonballs,
and enduring with the utmost courage a withering
musketry fire in the streets; many enemy casualties.
Army of the Alps.
Chamberlhac, general-in-chief.
Storming of the Mont-Cormet fieldworks
by 500 Republican troops who repel
1000 Piemontese entrenched there with guns;
many enemy casualties.