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“more than a’ million cf livres, and 4060 
facks of oats upon the Tauber, which 
the Auftrians were forced to abandon. 
_ The French general, Moreau, was 
-alfo fuccefsful on the Upper Rhine; and 
he reduced the duke of Wirtemberg to 
the neceflity of requefting a fufpention 
of crms, which was granted, upon the 
conditions, that he fhould furnifh the 
French with 4oo horfes, feveral thoufand 
oxen, four millions of French money, and 
withdraw the troops whom he had fur- 
nifhed to the coalition for his contingent. 
After the battle of Ettingen, the Auf- 
trians retired behind Pfortzheim, while 
the French made every difpofition to at- 
tack them im that pofition. The attack 
was fixed for the 15ch of July, but the 
Auftrians precipitately evacuated Pfortz- 
heim on the preceding night, and retired 
behind the Necker. The French gene- 
ral, Moreau, gave orders immediately 
for his troops to march after them. 
The firft movement of the Auftrians, 
under prince Charles, was made towards 
Waihingen. General Saint Cyr, with 
the French troops, moved at the fame 
time behind the Wurm, at Weil. The 
Auftrians, fuppofing the plan of the 
French was to, gain the Necker before 
them, effected their retreat on the 18th 
of July to Stutgard, by the way of 
Ludwigfburg. General Saint Cyr im- 
mediately marched to Stuttgard, came 
up with the advanced guard of the Auf- 
trians before that town ; and though he 
had with him only a few battalions,’ he 
‘attacked them, and drove them from the 
town. The fame day, the left of the 
French army marched to Waihingen, and 
the next day to the mouth of the Entz, 
towards Saxhenhauien. On the r8th of 
July, general St. Cyr attacked the ad- 
vanced guard of the Auftrians, and after 
avery brifk engagement, forced them to 
leave the French mafters cf all the-left 
bank of the Neckar.. Cn the fame 
general Laranche attacked the Auftrians 
at Ehlangen. “The battle was very ob- 
ftinately fought; the Aultrians were de- 
feated, with the Icfs of 800 men killed 
and wounded, and. 300 made prifoners. 
The archduke, on the 19th of july, 
crofied the Necker, and entamped at 
_Pelbach, for the purpofe of covering more 
effectually his communication with Ulm. 
On the 22d of July, general Moreau 
made a movement, the object of which 
was to pafs the Necker, and attack the 
-archduke in his pofition. ‘“[he archduke, 
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however, perceiving his defign, effeied 
a precipitate retreat, by the great roads 
of Gmund and Goeppingen. General 
Moreau immediately crofled the Necker’ 
in puxiuit or him. 
In a fhort time after thefe movements 
of the army of/the Rhine and the Mo- 
felle, general Kleber took. the command, 
during the indifpofttion of general Jour- 
dan, of the-army of the Sambre and 
Meufe. Onthe 3d of Auguit, the di- 
vifion of the army under general Lefe- 
bre proceeded from the camp at Belling- 
haufen to Koenigfbere, by which~he 
was to fupport his left, bnt he found no 
eneray to oppofe him. ‘The divifion of 
general Colaud fet out at the fame hour 
from Haneibauch, and directed its march 
towards Zeill; in their progrefs they 
came up with a‘ party. of 800 horfe, 
which was charged by adjutant general 
Ney, who had only 400 men of the 6th 
regiment of Chaffeurs, and z4th of dra- 
goons, but by the fkill of his manceuvres, 
and the valour of his troops, he foon 
routed the Auftrians, and made feverak 
prifoners. ‘They fled in confufion to, 
Ebelfbach; where, fupported by a body 
of infantry, they attempted to rally, but 
being attacked with impetuofity by the 
light infantry of general Ney, which 
caine up at that moment, they were 
again completely routed and driven acrofs. 
the Mein. The divifions under the ge-, 
nerals Grenier and Championnet defeat-— 
ed the corps of Auftrians with whone 
they came up in their march, and gene- 
rat Bernadorte’s divifion fell in with the 
corps of general Kray, which fome days 
_before was encamped at Narfurt, on the 
other fide of the Mein, and was mucly 
fuperior in force to general Bernadotte, 
whofe flank was likewife much haraffed 
by flarmifhing parties of the Auftrians. 
He, however, attacked every thing which 
came before him, overcame every ob- 
-ftacle, and forced general Kray to aban- 
don the ground which he had been or- 
dered to occupy. 
On the fourth of Auguft, the different 
divifions of the French army began to 
pufh forward towards Redmitz, the 
Upper Mein, and the river Itz. The 
Auttrians, at the fametime, marched fome 
troops towards Nuremberg, and a corps 
of 10,000 men towards Cobourg. The 
French divifion foon arrived under the 
walls of Bamberg, the magiftrates of 
which addrefled an act of fubmilfion ‘to 
general’ Kleber. In’ a few hours, the 
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