•^6 ANNUAL REGISTER, 1794. 



little able was any part of tlie com- party, that their troops were \\e\- 



bir.ed army to afford it protection, corned into the town with th« 



that on July S, after the Duke's di- loudest acclamations, and treated 



vision had evacuated it, the incon- with every mark of attachment, 



siderable body he left behind, con- Upon the very day that Tournay 



sistinc'-of Hanoverians ancH-'ssians, surrendered, the Duke of York 



thought it prudent to withdraw found it necessarj- to abandon his 



from'a place which it \v,!S clear they position near Oudenarde, and to 



could no longer preserve. Not- retire towards Antwerp ; to w!):ch 



withstanding the friendly footing city he sent his sick and wounded, 



on which the British troops and the Oudenarde fell immediately into 



inhabitants had lived together, so l^e hands of the French; who made 



root-ed was their aversion to the a considerable booty here as well 



Austrian government, and so par- as at Tournay, consisting princi.. 



tial were they to the principles and pally of military stores and provi- 



views of the French republican sions, 



CHAP. II. 



Arrival of Lord Moira at Offend. Evnet/ation of this Toti'ii, and March o/'Lor^i 

 Moira to the Assistance of Ike ] )iiki' nfYork. Ostcnd surrendered to the I'rerich. 

 Exultntinn of the French at their Successes. Diligence and Activtiy of I he 

 French Armies in improving them. Prince Col/oitru dffated, and Mons taken. 

 Brusseh surrenders to the French, xrho e.'tablish their I'orm of Govern)n<nt 

 in that and other Placrs. Reunion at lirussefs of the French Armies of the 

 Ni'rth and of tlie Si:m/:re and Meiise. Immense C-oplnrcs by the French of 

 Proiisions, Amtnunilion, ]\Ii(itari/ Stores, a7u/ Magazines of even/ Kind. 

 Ghent taken hi] the French, Engagements lieixi-een the French and the 

 Troops under Lord Moira. He efeits a Junction li/th the Vuit of YorL. 

 Their joint Operations asainst the French. Th<j///iiit Meifklin. Movements 

 of the Duke if York. Prince Cohonrg proposes to attack the French, /nU 

 iht Dutch decline his Proposal. Reasons assigned for their Conduct. The 

 Hereditaria Prince of Orange endeavours to op>pose the Frenc7i, hut is cum- 

 ]ielled to retire. Gtneial Ctdirfaii drfeated near Luuvnin, n-ith great Slaughr 

 ter. That Cifi/ takm by the Fremh. Project of the Allies to form u Line 

 cf Defence belxveen Antwerp and Namur. Frustrated by the eipediuoas 

 MocinientS'fthe Fnnct. C'lpture of loth these Cities. The Austrians 

 rotated at Liege by General .fonrdain, to li'hom that Place surrenders. 

 The Fren<,-h invace Dutch Flanders. The Dutch evacuate Lisle. Cudsand 

 .surrenders to General Morcau. Siege of Sluys by the French. Its brave 

 J'-efence. Surrenders to the French. Successes of the French upon the 

 Rhine. Kavserslauern and other Places taken. The French surprised and 

 fit'feafedby MurshalMoUendorf nt Kuuserslauern. They gain a complete Vic- 

 ton/ a :er the Prussians at EdikhoJJ'an. Another over both the Prussians and 

 Anstriirns atTrijsiadt. Consrquei.a s of these Victories. The City of Treves 

 surrenders to the French. The French retake Landrecy, 3nesnoy, VaUtir 

 eiennes, and Conde, with immense Quantities of Stores and ArtilUry. Their 

 inexorable Trcctmcnt of the Emigrants. Their Capture of the Toxsns in 

 Flanders. Brave Defence of ?i import. Situation of the Dutch at this Peric/l. 

 Endeavours of the Sladtholder to excite them to unite in Drfnce of their 

 Country. Di-'Conlrhts and Complaints of the People of Holland. Prepara- 

 S:o:js oj i/.c Dutch t» appose the Frt.tch. Breda and Bois-le-Duc put m a 



Posture 



