ji historical chronicle. 
hending the sth and 4th divi- 
Sions,--M. Luckner -at Stras- 
bourg; lieutenant generals—de 
Gell at Strasbourg, la Moliere’ 
at Besancon, de Costine, Hel- 
terman at Landau; eleven 
camp mareschals at. the above 
named places. 
Defeat of the French forces. 
The 28th ult. in the “morn- 
ing, M. de Biron, at the head 
of 10,c00 men, marched from 
near Valenciennes, and pro- 
ceeded towards Mons. He 
dislodged the Austrian parties 
which he found in his pafsage. 
The 29th he appeared before 
Mons, near which he saw the 
enemy most advantageously 
posted’ on rising grounds, and 
much more numerous than he 
had reason to expect, M. de 
Biron immediately sent off. a 
courier to the commander in 
chief, to. acquaint him with: his 
position, and pafsed the night 
under arms. While he was 
waiting for orders, he was in- 
formed that the queen’s regi- 
ment had deserted, and, as they 
fled, had given out that the ge- 
neral was gone over-to the e- 
nemy. He followed, and for- 
ced the deserters back. ‘The 
Austrians, perceiving the con- 
great havoc. 
above four ‘leagues, took most 
of their baggage, and many of 
their cannon. General Biron 
had his horse fhot under him 
on the onset; the colonel of 
Esterhasy’s regiment was ta- 
ken prisoner with his thigh 
fhot off. 
The same day, at sevenin the 
evening, a detachment fromthe 
garrison of Lisle sallied out 
under the command of major 
general Theobald Dillon. His 
orders were to march against 
Tournay, and make a feint on 
that place, to cause a diversion 
of the enemy’s forces, while 
Biron’s army was employed in 
reducing Mons. Inthe morn- 
ing, as the detachment halted, 
they descried a formidable bo- 
dy of Austrians close by. The 
enemy’s artillery immediately, 
began. to play upon them with, 
General Dillon 
ordered a retreat to. be sound- 
ed, and here too only one 
corps (the chafseurs) kept thejr, 
ranks, and answered the ene- 
my’s fire, all the others ded to 
Lisle in the utmost confusien.. 
Being within a small distance. 
of the town, the coward sol-, 
diers cut general Dillon in pie- 
ces. They dragged. his limbs, 
fusion amongst the French to Lisle, and threw them into. 
troops, attacked them, and ob- | a fire kindled on purpose in the, 
liged them-to retreat. Whole market place. They. hung M. 
regiments ran away,—only one! Rerthois, an engineer officer, 
corps. behaved with intrepidi- | M. Chaumount, the general’s. 
ty, it was the second battalion | Aide de camp, and a priest, for. 
of Parisian volunteers. The; no ostensible reason; and then. 
Austrians. pursued the French they hung up all the Austrian 
