 oHISTORY (OF EUROPE. 
feeble.defenceof Longwy, appears 
to have had a good effect on those 
to whom the command of fortified 
places had been entrusted, Thion- 
ville continued to make a vigorous 
resistance... A sortie was\made with 
the best\effect ; and prevented the 
enemy from carrying on active oper- 
ations, against the place. 
» /Dheadvanced guard of the Prus- 
sians (still continuing to advance, 
General Kellerman moved to Bar- 
le-duc ; which obliged the Prussians 
to fall back on the main body. He 
afterwards orderedhis army towards 
St. Dizier, to cover'Chalons from 
‘the enemy. ff 
‘Am attack had been made on the 
12th, by the Prussian army, upon 
Dumouriez's~ head quarters at 
Grand Pré—The enemy was met 
at Chenay Befu, bya detachment of 
‘the French army, under the com- 
-dandyof General Miranda. An 
action took place between the 
French and Prussian infantry ;— 
which dast.were <driven by the 
| French, supported. by their. artil- 
dJery, to: the village of Mortheme— 
here the engagement was renewed, 
the Prussians having received rein- 
forcements both of infantry and ar- 
fillery.. But they were again over- 
‘and forced to retire upon 
theiradyanced posts at Briguenay, 
where their cavalry was equally 
| 
eens retire by the French 
‘ light cavalry. This ac- 
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dy of troops engaged, being on the 
side of the French 1500 invall, and 
thatof the Prussians 3000) yet was 
_of great importance at thatmoment. 
The French were taught, by that 
essay, that they might meet.a body 
of Prussians, and with advantage, 
even with an inferior number,:— 
that their artillery had. appeared 
that day intrinsically superior to the 
enemy’s; and that their Generals 
could manceuvre before the Prussi- 
ans with equal success : which con- 
siderations, certainly raised very 
much the spirit of the French afmy. 
On the 14th September another 
attack; was;made on Dumouriez’s 
army,,at La Croix au Bois. A de- 
tachment under General Chazaux 
had-suffered and lost that important 
post ; which cheek forced Dumou- 
riez to make his retreat; and’ the 
General was on the point of break- 
ing up bis camp at Grand Pré, and 
retiring to St. Menehould* ;, when, 
by a lucky change of fortune, he 
defeated the enemy, re-established 
his camp, and issued orders for the 
protection of the country. Dumou- 
‘niez’s force was daily increasing ; 
and the armies of France drawing 
to a focus,forthe protection of the 
capital. Dumouriez’s army con- 
sisting now of 26,000 men; Keller- 
man’s of 22,000 ; Bournonville’s of 
11,000 with $000 men expected 
from Paris, constituted an army of 
nearly 20,000 men. 
Butrumours, very unfavourableto 
1 aero of this retreat, which really caved the French army, see in 
, the detailshe gives there ; though he does not sufficiently explore 
ror in which the army was thrown that night by the reports propa- 
e disaffected officers of the French army ; nor the merit that General 
erand General Miranda bad, in rallying the troops, and checking these bad 
y by shewing to the soldiers, who listened to these two officers, the perfidy 
) of the reports they had heard ; and by which means order and confi- 
by the 
