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near Bouillon, kills 3000 French, and takes 700. 22. Battle near Tournay, lasts 16 hours; the French lose 12,000 men, and the allies 3000. A French army of 10,000 men penetrates into Luxembourg. 24. Kaunitz takes 80 cannon, kills 2000 French, and takes 3000. Insurrection of the patriots at Liege. The Emperor quits the army, and returns to Vienna. 29. Battle of Germersheim; the French lose 400 killed, and 600 taken prisoners. A plot to assassinate Robespierre and Collot d'Herbois fails of success; the former obtains a guard for his person. _June_ 1. The British fleet under Lord Howe engages the French; the latter loses eight sail of the line. 2. The convention decrees, that no Englishman or Hanoverian shall be made prisoner in battle--no quarter to be given, but all without reserve to be put to the sword. The Duke of York communicates this barbarous decree to his army, in a manner that does honour to a soldier and to a man. The guillotine is destroyed by the people at St. Brieux, and the revolutionary tribunal expelled. 4. The French are routed near Charleroy with the loss of 4000 men. The man who saved Collot d'Herbois from assassination, obtains a pension of 1500 livres a year. Decreed, that the members of the convention, when on duty, shall wear marks of distinction. Proclamation of the Emperor to induce all Brabant to rise in a mass. A military school is instituted in the plain of Sablons near Paris. Decreed, that a new grammar be published, to give to the language of liberty a character that is suitable to it. 8. Jourdan, called Coupe-tete, general of the army at Avignon, guillotined. The son and daughter of Louis XVI. employed to make shoes and shirts for the nation.
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