54 ANNUAL REGISTER, 1794, 



fought with a coiirag;e worthy of 

 the prize for wliich they were both 

 contending; and those who lost it 

 Still preserved their honour. 



General Churiait had ample rea- 

 son to be satisfied with the beha- 

 viour pf his men ; and notwith- 

 standing the general character of 

 unfortunate, which a series of un- 

 toward accidents had affixed to his 

 name, still the officers and soldiers 

 under him had lost none of th.eir 

 esteem for his abilities ; and were 

 determined to do him the justice 

 he deserved, by seconding his mear 

 sures with their wpnted alacrity and 

 spirit. 



This General conducted the re- 

 treat of his army to Cologne with 

 great circumspection. The enemy 

 pursued it the whole of its way, 

 and harassed it so incessantly, that 

 it was not without much care and 

 dexterity he was able to reach that 

 city : but, as it was defenceless, 

 and the inhabitants averse to his 

 cause, he thought it prudent to 

 hasten over the Rhine with all ex- 

 pedition. The French were so 

 ciose on his rear, that they almost 

 came up with the last division of 

 his troops that were crossing the 

 river, insultingly teUing them " that 

 ■was not the road to Paris." 



On the 6th of October the 

 French made their triumphant en- 

 try into Cologne, where, in com- 

 pliance with the request of the in- 

 habitants, only four thousand of 

 their most orderly men were sta- 

 tioned. They were exti^mely de- 

 ' sirous, pursuant t<> the strict injunc- 

 tions of their rulers, tc impress all 

 people with a conviction that they 

 would respect the property and re- 

 ligion of every country and place 

 that submitted to them ; and 



this they were not remiss in veri-* 

 fying b}' their c<pnduct. The peoi 

 pie of Cologne, on this occasion, 

 experienced so much good beha- 

 haviour on their part, that few of 

 them left the city ; as they found 

 their persons and possessions in no 

 danger of being molested, nor the 

 exercise of their religion in the least 

 interrupted. 



Juliers had already surrendered, 

 immediately after the Austrians 

 had left its walls. Venloo on the 

 Meuse,and belonging to the Dutch, 

 submitted next, and was followed 

 by Nuys and Bonn, both situated 

 on the Rhine, and part of the elec-? 

 torate of Cologne. 



There was a place in the vicinity 

 of this town which the French go^ 

 vernment v/cre particularly soUt 

 citous to reduce. This was the 

 town pf Coblentz, a dependence 

 of the electorate of Mentz. It wa^ 

 highly obnoxious to them, on ac. 

 count of the ccleb.-ity it had ac-. 

 quired for having long been the 

 principal receptacle of the French 

 emigrants, and the capital seat of 

 their consultations and resolves 

 against the m.easures originating 

 from the revolution. For theje 

 reasons, it was determined by the 

 heads of the republican govern- 

 ment, that it should no longer ra 

 main in the possession of its ene- 

 mies. General Jourdain was 

 therefore directed to detach a suf- 

 ficient force for its reduction. Ex- 

 pecting the French would not fail 

 to attack it, the allies hgd em- 

 ployed a considerable time in for- 

 tifying it ; and the garrison it con- 

 tained would, it was hoped, m.ake 

 a resistance adequate to the ex- 

 penccs laid out for that pur- 

 pose. 



General 



