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body of Austrians being inthe vici- 
nity. of that place. . _, 
‘August the 11th, the Prussian ar- 
my was put inmotion. . This force 
had been encamped in, the, neigh- 
bourhood of Triers, and intended 
to enter France by the route of Sirk 
and Thionville. The army of emi- 
grants consisting of 10,000, men, 
were kept a day’s march.in the rear 
of the Prussians. On the night of 
the 11th,a slight skirmish took place 
between a party of Frenchand Prus- 
sians.. On the 12th, the Prussi- 
an hussars and chasseurs. eccupied 
the post of Sirk; where the in- 
habitants who had fired from the 
windows on the Prussian, troops, 
avere hanged by the common hang- 
man. 
General Clairfait was now in full 
marchitowards Montmedi, with the 
view of co-operating and forming a 
junction in France with the Prussian 
army. On the 22d this General 
made himself master of Longwy, 
after,a very feeble and ineffectual 
resistance, notwithstanding that it 
was strongly fortified, well-garrison- 
ed and amply provided with. stores 
and provisions. Some days previ- 
oustothis, the Prussians had attack- 
ed, the French post, .at Aumeby, 
near to Villers la Montagne ; which 
they carried after a vigorous resist- 
ance; inwhich each party sustained 
a.considerable loss. The combined 
armies now commenced the impor- 
tant siege of Thionvalle ; and shoyt- 
Jy.after that of Verdun. . Thion- 
ville was gallantly defended, al- 
though surrounded by an army of 
50,000 men; but Verdun was 
treacherously delivered, as Longwy 
had been before, to the enemy; 
which facts confirmed, in the opi- 
nion of the nation, the danger in 
which they were, by having their 
himself as an active and enkSBRAH » 
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ANNUAL REGLS TER; ; 17092. 
armies and fortified places in; the 
hands of nobles, and most of them 
disaffected to the cause of the revo~ 
lution, .The Freneh executive go- 
vernmentapprehending their gtow- 
ing danger, used every method t 
stimulate the patriotism of their 
countrymen. .M. Luckner was ap- 
pointed Generalissimo, of, the ar- 
mies of France. . An entrepol, was 
established under hisimmediate con- 
trol at Chalons-sur-Marne, - where 
he established his head quarters. 
Tothis pointall the freshlevies were ___ 
conducted; from whenee, after they 
were inspected, they were forwar 1- 
ed to the different armies, accord- 
ingly as circumstances or exigen- 
cies might require. , ! : 
It cannot be disputed that .Du- 
mouriezdid, on all oceasions, acquit 
ing officer; and that he evince 
very considerable degree of know- _ 
ledge in. his profession.—The sprae- 
clamation, which, according tot 
instructions of Roland, minister, of 
the home department of France, he ~ 
issued at the critical Bde me rh 
the combined armies were by rapid _ 
movements attempting to penetrate » 
to Paris, was a well-judged, and a - 
provident measure. He command- &! 
ed the inhabitants to drive all t “4 
cattle and horses behind the Freneh bj 
camps, to destroy, or carry, away * 
provisions and forage, and to cut 
down the trees every where, to _ 
form abbatis, that the march of 
enemy might be impeded Bape ry 
as possible. About this time Gene- . 
ral Latour and Colonel Mylius _ 
made an attack on the towns of | 
Lannoi and Roubaix, situated be- 
tween Tournay and Lisle; which | 
were taken after a, vigorous, resiste 
ance onthe part of the French, 
‘The disgrace that followed the 
feeble _ 
