HISTORY: OF EUROPE. 
_. The greatest loss that befel them, 
in this long and difficult retreat, was 
thatof general Marceau, an officer 
of the highest character in his pro- 
fession. In the retreat of the Sieg, 
on the nineteenth of September, 
while the French were cleaning the 
defiles of Altankircha, he was en- 
trusted with the protection of their 
rear. He executed this task ina 
masterly and successful manner. But 
as he was reconnoitring a .wood, 
occupied by the enemy, he was 
mortally wounded. So great was 
the esteem and respect he was held 
- in by the Austrians, that the arch-. 
duke himself sent his surgeon'to at- 
tend him; and after he was dead, 
ordered his body to be delivered to 
the French, and military honours to 
be paid to his memory by his own 
army, in conjunction with the 
French military. 
General Marceau fell in the flower 
of his age: he bad just completed 
his twenty-seventh year. But his 
talents were extraordinary, and ex- 
cited the firmest persuasion, that he 
would become one of the greatest 
commanders of the age. He was, 
by the generality of military people, 
reputed another Buonaparte. He 
had, like him, risen by performing 
arduous and essential services, and 
was the favourite of the soldiery, 
who lamented his loss as that of a 
- friend and protector, as well as of a 
general in whom they placed the 
justest confidence. 
Shortly after his retreat across the 
Rhine, general Jourdan became so 
Seriously indisposed, through the in- 
cessant fatigue he had undergone 
during this laborious campaign, that 
he was obliged to resign the com- 
mand of the army of the Sambre 
and Meuse, which was conferred 
upon general Bournonville, who 
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was at this time at the head of those 
forces denominated the army of the 
north. He had greatly distinguished 
himself in the campaigns of 1792. 
and 1793. He fully maintained the 
reputation he had acquired; and, 
during the remainder of the cams 
paign, kept theAustrians continually 
in check, and defeated them in some 
very serious engagements. 
In the mean time, the archduke 
having freed the. empire from one of 
the invading armies, now saw him- 
self at liberty! to attack ‘the’other 
with a far superior force, flushed 
with victory, and desirous to come 
plete the success and honour it had 
gained, by compelling that army in 
the same manner to abandon its con- 
quests in Germany. 
Leaving a sufficient strength to 
make head against the French forces 
he had driven across the Rhine, he 
set out at the head of a powerful 
army in quest of general Moreau, 
whom he doubted not to compel, as 
he bad done Jourdan, to retire into 
France. 
This resolute and skilful officer 
was still contending successfully with 
general Latour, who commanded 
the Austrian forces, and was ex- 
tremely active in his endeavours to 
expel the French from Batavia; but 
Moreau was superior to him in 
every engagement. Finding it, 
however, impossible to maintain his 
ground, in the heart of Germany, 
after the expulsion of Jourdan’s 
army, against the immense superio- 
rity of numbers that were on the 
point of assailing him, he came to 
the determination of moving back 
to the Rhine. He broke up his in- 
campment before Engolstadt on the 
10th of September, and retired 
leisurely towards Neuburg, over- 
coming every obstacle in his ich 
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