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men. By this success, a junction 
was formed with General d’Harville 
and his detachment from Bavay; 
and the army took possession of the 
territory of Delonges. 
On the Sth, in the morning, Ge- 
neral Dumouriez reconnoitred the 
position of the enemy. The Aust- 
trian army consisted. according to 
some accounts, from 20,000 to 
28.000* men, commanded by the 
Duke of Saxe Teschen. Their 
right extended to the village of 
Jemmappe, and their left towards 
Mount Palisel. They were posted 
in all this length, on a woody moun- 
tain; where they had, in an amphi- 
theatre, three tiers of redoubts, fur- 
nished with twenty pieces of heavy 
artillery, at least as many field- 
pieces, besides three field-pieces 
foreach battalion, amounting in all 
to 100 pieces of cannon. 
The army of Dumouriez was 
aphid supplied with artillery ; 
on account ofthe superior ad- 
vantage which the elevated situa- 
tion of the enemy’s guns afforded 
them, it would have been the height 
of imprudence to have trusted the 
event of the day'to artillery alone. 
Dumouriez, relying on the energy 
and spirit of his troops, and’ the 
strong desire they had evinced to 
be led to'action, determined on a 
vigorous and close attack in the 
course of the following day. On 
the afternoon of the 5th, several 
partial skirmishes took place be- 
tween the contending armies ; and 
General d’Harville’ was enabled, 
with 690 men, to take possession of 
f1is 
the heights of Framery; while Ge- 
neral Dumouriez took his position 
with his right toward Framery, and 
his left extending towards Horme, 
having the enemy immediately in 
front. On the morning of the 6th, 
the General ordered twelve six- 
teen-pounders, the same number of 
twelve-pounders, with twelve six- 
pounders, to be advanced and dis- 
posed in the front of his line; by 
which disposition, d'Harville had 
the advantage of flanking the ene- 
my’s left. ‘The General, in person, 
commanded the attack on the right: 
that of the centre was led by Ega- 
lité and other Generals. At seven 
in the morning a very heavy fire of 
artillery commenced on both sides. 
This continued without intermis- 
sion, and without any decided ef- 
fect on either side, till ten o’clock. 
The toops of France by this time 
displayed the greatest eagerness to 
attack the enemy with fixed bayo- 
nets. This mode of attack was re- 
commended by the Generals Ega- 
lité and Bournonville; but it was 
necessary, previously to this, to ap- 
proach certain of the enemy’s bat- 
teries, and to occupy. the village of 
Carignon, tlen'in the possession of 
the Austrians, and without which 
the French could not attack the 
lines of Jemmappe. The direction 
of this attack was entrusted to Co- 
lonel Thuvenot, an officer of merit 
and experience. His efforts were 
to be directed against the villages 
of Carfgnon and Jemmappe, and 
the right of the enemy’s entrench- 
ynents, as soon as he had effected 
_ * Ina pamphlet composed under the eye of the Duke of Brunswick, entitled 
* Lettres sur VOuvrage intitulé La Vie du General Dumouriez,”’ published by 
Fauliler, 1795, it is asserted, that on this occasion there were 60,000 French 
against only 15,000 Austrians. 
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