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cefs. The cool and determined bravery of the 

 Auftrians however prevailed over the rude nurn- 

 bers and impetuoHty of the French; about four 

 or five o'clock in the afternoon they gave way. 

 and were purfued to Tirlemont, but night com- 

 ing on, prevented them from being further an- 

 noyed. By t|iis compleat vidory, fo truly glo- 

 rious to Auftria, Hqlland, was for that year, 

 (1793) refcued from the deflruclive fraternal 

 hug. of the Conventionalifts. 



1 cannot avoid relating an anecdote of the 

 brave Archduke, which will fhew more than, 

 any defcription I can give, the neceflity in which 

 the Auftrian army were for bread. Riding over 

 the field of battle, his Royal Highnefs obferved 

 a fine drelTed Frenchman laying dead; the un- 

 ufual fmartnefs of the dead man's appearance, 

 firft attraded his notice ; but perceiving a black 

 loaf m \{u havre Jac y he inftantly alighted, and 

 feizing the valuable prize, he exclaimed, " That 

 ** gentleman did not fuppofe he was carrying 

 " this loaf for me." 



The defeat of the enemy being perfe(5i:ly af- 

 certained, about nine o'clock in the evening, 

 Saxe Coburg ordered a feu de joye the whole 

 extent of his front. The arpiy as the night be- 

 fore remained on the field of battle, and Saxe 

 Coburg, the Archduke, and the Staff, retired 

 again to the villages of Neerwinden and Landen ; 



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