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fition, without giving them an opportu- 
nity of receiving farther reinforcements ; 
for this purpofe he only waited the arrival 
of a confiderable number of Saxon cavalry, 
which did mot happen till feven in the 
evening. Before thefe cavairy could reach 
the point of attack, the a€tion had already 
taken place between the French and Auf- 
hey in which there had been feveral 
repulfes alternately on both fides. In a 
doubtful moment, four {quadrons of Saxon 
cavalry, with a fquadron.of the regiment 
of Carochy, arrived, and attacked a “height 
whereon the greater part of Le Fevre’s 
troops were well potted. After fuffering 
confiderable jofs from the fire of the 
French, thefe frefh troops broke the three 
battalions of the enemy who were fituated 
on the height, cut down every man who 
could not fave himfelf by flight im the ad- 
jacent wood, and took the cannon. Night 
coming on, gave the French an opportu- 
nity of retreating in good order. The 
fofs of the Auftrians and Saxons was al- 
lowed by them to be near fix hundred: 
the French were faid to have loft many 
more. Soon after this, general Jourdan 
retreated acrofs the Rhine, and retired to 
Coblentz. 
On the 23d of June, three columns of 
the army under general Moreau marched 
to the banks ofthe Rhine, near Strarf- 
burg. One of the columns paifed that 
river at Neuhoff, in fpite of its ra pidity, 
without ftriking a blow; furprited the 
Aufirians’ pots, who had laid down their 
arms, took them prifoners of war, and 
fent them to Gus This column 
then proceeded to the fort of Kehl, which 
foon afterwards furrendered. The fecond 
column croffed the Rhine at Watzenau. 
‘The third paffed at Selr. 
According to the declaration of the 
minifter of war, the movements we have 
jut mentioned to have taken place in the 
armies of the Sambre and IMcufe, under 
Jourdan and Le Fevre, had-for their ob- 
ject to draw the attention of the Aufriars 
towards the Lower Rhine, while Moreau 
fhould crofs the Rhine above, in the vici- 
nity of Strafburg. 
General Moreau, after having been 
joined by his cavalry and artillery, ad- 
vanced with his army, and feveral partial 
actions took p place previoufly to the 25th 
of June. On that day a general battle 
was fought at Renchen. The conteft was 
very obftinate ; but the Auftrians were 
obliged to retreat in the greateit diforder, 
with the lofs of 1200 men made prifoners 5 
“ ten pieces of cannon, and almoft all their 
light artillery were taken, end the field of 
Public Affairs . .. France. 
Lien 
battle was covered with the dying and the 
dead. On the and of July, a divifion of 
general Morcau’s army came up with the 
Aufirians pofted upon the mountain of 
Knubis, the higheft of the Black Moun- 
tains. ‘The pofition was a very firong 
one, but the French attacked them with 
the greateft impetuofitity ; their'redoubts 
were carried, and they were driven from 
the mountain with confiderable lofs. Ge- 
neral Laroch at the taking of a redoube 
was the firft who leaped into the ditch; 
and, notwithftanding the terrible fire of 
thofe who defended the redoubt, and the 
grenades which they threw into the ditch, 
he fcaled the walls at the head of the 
chafleurs whom he commanded. The 
prince of Wurtemburg, who commanded 
the Auftrian troops in  perfon, harangued 
his troops before the attack, hoping, he 
faid, that they would defend the redoubé 
better than they had done the fort of 
Kehi. 
The divufion of the army under general 
‘Kleber lefe Duffeldorff on the 22th of 
June. The divifion under general Gre- 
mier paffed the Khine at Cologne the next 
day, and joined the troops under Kleber. 
This corps arrived on the 30th of June at ~ 
uN Sie, on the left bank of which the 
Auftrians had fiationed about 1200 light 
Swe thefe the French attacked and de- 
feated. General Jourdan, in order to ef- 
fect a {peedy junction with general Kleber, 
paiied the Rhine om the and of July with 
that divifion of the army which was en- 
cainped between Coblentz and Andernach. 
This paflage was performed im the pre- 
fence df an Auftrian corps of five or fix 
thoufand men ; 5 the whoie of which, to 
ufe the words of general Jourdan, “ would 
have been taken prifoners had it been pof- 
fible for the cavalry to have croffed the 
Rhine fooner.”’. As it was, two pieces of 
cannon were tasen, and about 200 Auf- 
triaus made prifoners. 
In Italy, the armies of the republic have 
effected almof all that either ambition, 
revenge, or a love ar libect: could fugget 5 
the young and impetuous general Buona- 
parte may be faid to have reduced to the 
moft perfeét fubmiilion the Italian ftates 5 
the once high and powerful pontiff of 
Rome fent commiffioners more than’a 
hundred and feventy miles to purcha/e an 
armiftice, and ftop the progrefs of the 
French republicans. 
On the igth of June, Buonaparte ar~ 
rived at Bologna ; a part of his army had 
arrived two days before, and taken 400° 
foldiers of the pope prifoners.. Fort Ur- 
bino was alfo taken, with fifty pieces of 
cannon, 

