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Murg, with the lofs of s00 prifoners. 
The Auftrians, however, fill -retained 
poffeffion of Radftadt ; in this pofition they 
were attacked at four in the afternoon, and 
the conteft became general. In the centre 
the carnaye was terrible. he front of 
the French fuifered much on the de- 
firudtion of the wood, and the adju- 
tant-general, Bellavane, had his thigh 
broken in drawing up his troops. He 
was immediately replaced by general Fo- 
reft. The Freach at length fucceeded in 
-wncovering the two wings of the Auftrians, 
and obliged them to retreat over the Murg 
to Ettengen. “Phe French immediately 
entered Raftadr, in purfuir of thofe who 
lodged themfelves there; fe ce. {hot were 
fired in the fireets, and they at length fe- 
cured the vidtory. “f The “of of the 
Aufirians,’: faid the French commander 
Moreau, * was enormous. The feld of 
battle was covered with men-and horfes.”’ 
The French about the fame time were 
fucce{sful between the Sieg and the Lahn ; 
they forced the patiage of the Lahn on 
the gth of july at ali poits, and their ad- 
vanced guards reached beyond the left 
bank. On the 4th of July, general Le- 
fevre, who had proceeded to Siegen, in 
confequence of the orders of general Kle- 
ber, attacked the right wing of the Auf- 
trians at Willendortft, put. “them to the 
route, and took 600 prifoners. On the 
fixth of July, general Jourdan direéted 
one column of his army to Renderold, 
which took up a pofition at Mehrenberg. 
He ordered another column to proceed to 
Valderbach, under general Championet, 
which took up a pofition on the heights 
before Limbourg, where gencral Berna- 
dotte, after having attacked the Auftrians 
with his ufual impetuolity, forced them to 
retire into Limbourg. On the feventh, 
general Championet took poffefhon of 
Runkel. On the fame day, general jour- 
dan went to general Kieber, in order to 
reconnoitre, the next day, the pofition of 
the Aufirians behind Wetzlaer, where 
they had united their principal force. He 
oropofed to return the fame day to Lim- 
bourg, in order to make a general attack 
upon the Lahn, but was prevented by the 
Aoftrians’ retreating. The French light 
troops followed them, to trace their line 
in itsmarch; and onthe gth of July, as 
has been obferved, they pafled the Lahn, 
heir columns came up with the Auftrians, 
and engaged their rear guards. 
General Buonaparte, on the 6th of Ju- 
ly, had his head quarters at Roverolla. 
After the battle of Borghetto, the Auf- 
trians retreated to the high mountains, in 
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order to difpute with the French the de- 
files of the Tyrolefe. They drew lines, 
which they for vihed with infinite labour, 
from the lake of Garda to the Adige. The 
French troops were ordered to attack the 
Auftrians by the Bochetta di Campion.— 
Marchand, chief of battalion, marched 
ummediarely: he turned the Auftrians by 
the right, and this was the fignal for 
attack. 
The republi ican foldiers, with their 
arms in their hands, and without firing 
a tingle thot, climbed up the feep and 
ed rocks, killed i109 men, and took 
200 prifoners, with 400 tents, and all 
their baggage. 
At the fame time, Becro, chief of bat- 
talion, and an officer of tried courage, turns 
ed the enemy by the ieft, carried the ex- 
cellent pofition of Bologna, killed 308 
men, and took feventy prifoners. The 
Aufirians, in cen abandoned 
their eer Caenee and the Preach took 
poffeffion of them, which faved them in- 
finite labour. Thus the defigas of the 
Auttrians were fruftrated, and their fortifi- 
cations demolifhed, and the cxertions of 
the French accompithhed in one inftant— 
an object which might have confumed 2 
month’s labour and fatigue. ‘This was 
the firtt battle that took place between the 
two armies fince general Wurmier had 
fucceeded general Beaulieu, in the com- 
mand of the Auftrian army. : 
On the Rhine, the troops of the Res 
public continued ne be fuccefsful. After 
the battle of Rad@adt, the Avftrians re- 
treated to the excellent pofition in-front 
of Ettingen. General Moreau, learning 
that the Archduke had received great 
reinforcements, wrote to General St. Cvr 
to join him immediately , by the valley ‘of 
the Murg, with all the troops he could 
colleét. , After this was efiected, and 
fome arrangements made, General Mo- 
reau attacked the Archduke on the oth 
of July, in his pofition before Ettingen, 
The centre of the French army, u under 
General St. Cyr, attacked the left of the 
Auftrians pofted at the fource of the 
river Alb. The left wing, under Ge- 
neral Defaix, attacked the Auftrian po- 
fitions between the mouutains and the 
Rhine. General St. r’s attack was 
received with great intrepidity ; and the 
conteft between his divifion and the 
Auftrians was moft ebftinate, particularly 
at the mountain of Rotenfohle, one 
of the great Black Mountains. Four 
times were the French repulfed; the 
fifth charge.was fucceisful; the Aufrians 
were driven from the mountains, and 
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