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AN
IMPARTIAL
HISTORY OF EUROPE
FROM THE
Death of Louis XVI. to the present Time.
TO WHICH IS PREFIXED, A
SKETCH of the FRENCH REVOLUTION.
By T. B. JOHNSON.
IN FOUR VOLUMES.
VOL. II.
LONDON:
Printed for SHERWOOD, NEELY, and JONES, Paternoster-row;
JOHNSON and LEAK, Ormskirk; and to be had of all Book- sellers in the United Kingdom.
1812.
PRINTED BY JOHNSON AND LEAK, ORMSKIRK.
CONTENTS.
CHAP. I.
Internal state of France. Battle of Famars. Revolutionary tribu-
nal constituted. Appointment of a committee of public safety.
The French republic decreed one and indivisible. Contest be-
tween the Mountain party and the Girondists. The new con-
stitution. Assassination of Marat. Blockade and surrender of
Conde. Siege and surrender of Valenciennes. Action of Ar-
lons. Fall of Mentz. Affair of Dunkirk. Success of the
republicans. Lord Hood takes possession of Toulon. Extra-
ordinary motion of Barrere. Death of the Queen. Execution
of the Girondists, &c. Page 1
CHAP. II.
Preparations of the hostile powers. Subsidy of the king of Prussia.
The duke of Brunswick resigns the command of the Prussian
army. A great council of war held at Aeth. The German em-
peror assumes the command of the allies. Siege of Landrecy.
Operations of the hostile armies. Siege of Charleroy. Battle
of Fleurus. Siege of Ypres, and defeat of general Clairfait.
Lord Moira, with a British corps, lands at Ostend. He joins
the duke of York. Defeat of prince Cobourg in the forest of
Soignies. Rapid successes of the French They re-take Lan-
drecy, Quesnoy, &c. General alarm of the allied powers. The
emperor's subsidy. Dreadful and decisive battle near Rure-
mond. Invasion and conquest of Holland, &c.
CHAP. III.
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Opening of the campaign against the Spaniards. Battle of Spa-
nilles, and death of general Dugommier. Astonishing success