Emigrants defend redoubt as Regicides suffer heavy losses
Report of a military action where Emigrants reinforced by the legion of Marabeau and the Chevalier de la Couronne captured a redoubt defended by 200 grenadiers amid heavy fire. 70 Regicides killed and £2 seized, artillery horses captured. Emigrants suffered two killed and several wounded. A second bloody engagement near Germersheim saw 200 Regicides lost, with the attackers repeatedly repulsed and driven back to Landau before the Convention commissioners. Whitehall July 31. Captain Calvert carries dispatches from Maurrray to Dundas.
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Legion of Marabeauy
Chevalier de la Couronne
Germersheim
Landau
Convention
Guildhall Trial Over A Widow And A Young Suitor
In a Guildhall case Mrs Hockley, a Shoreditch widow with a business, seeks 521 18s paid by a younger man she loaned money to during their affair. He later married another in Rochester, denied the debt, and left her ill and abandoned. The defendant claims she seduced him, saying he came to live with her and they ran a joint trade, while the plaintiff insists the money funded stock. The jury weighs the evidence of deceit, breach, and consent.
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Hockley
Miller
Shoreditch
Toney
Rochester
Coors
Guildhall
Repulsed French assault misshapes Brunswick march
Fragmentary report notes an enemy action on a July 14 date with forces approaching, repulsed by allied troops. The Duke of Brunswick is described as marching his corps toward Bensingen in response to the threatened attack, with unclear details and several specifics lost.
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Teag
Duke of Brunswick
Ravelin
Leigh
Doyle
Langerke
Heffians
Offney
Sutherland
Geétterat Abercromby
Erbach
Abercromby
Penerak
Count
Dietrichstein
Orlandini
Thiangie
Austrian Corps of Engineers
Fleche
Sombre Lausanne Dispatch on Parisian Envoy and Siege
Reports from Lausanne July 2 note public interest in whether the French ambassador will be acknowledged by the Helvetic Diet. The text details foreign envoy disruptions, the Staël and Necker family movements, and a lengthy military siege narrative praising Abercromby and allies while outlining ongoing bombardment and capitulation threats to Valenciennes.
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Bocys
M.de Sembaville
Bern
Baroness Stael
Mr. Necker
Capet
Lausanne
Narbonne
Sillery
O’orleans
Mayence Siege Details Signal Prolonged Fire and Capitulation Demands
Mayence reports describe the siege aftermath with fires from shells on corn and hay stores, a blown gunpowder magazine, and heavy casualties among the besieged garrison now at 13 000, including 5 000 sick in hospitals. Merlin seeks a three day truce to settle capitulation terms, while Prussian forces prepare rapid advances into Alsace and aim to encircle Laudau, shaping a likely end to the régicides era.
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Caffel
Linienberg
Garrisor
Merlin
Massesem
Alsace
Uccesses
Laudau
Prussia
Wurmser
Watts
France
Corovare
Valenciennes
Flanders
Hainault
Naval movements and convoy changes at Plymouth
Reports from Plymouth on July 29 describe orders to fit for sea for the ship Melampus under Captain Corrin bound for Nootka Sound, while the Syren under Captain Mantey is counter-ordered to take on extra stores for a foreign station. The Active under Captain Naceeg is to sail with the Portsmouth convoy replacing the Syren, and militia companies depart Maker Camp for the Eastward. The Expugger, a 16 gun cutter, arrives at Hamoaze for the same Eastward cruise.
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Plymouth
Melampis
Corrin
Nootka Sound
Syren
Mantey
Campthie Naceeg
Portsmouth
Somerset
A. Cruize
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Whitehall
Calvert
Coldstream Regiment of Guards
Ness
Duke of York
Sie
Passes Maurray
Bart
Royal
Henry Dundas
Effreux
Cipyastes
Justice
Bulwer
Thomas Hatch
Sutton
Thomas Clarke
Hihioner
Moredon
Suttens
Switzerland
Fuly
Guards
Frank
Atarn Ditto
Kiled
Ditta
Coldstream Ditto
Klank
Kar Ditte
Warde
Toernache
Ppa
Duer
Rath Regiment
JasMurnar
Ethat
RiCch
Frengrrc
Gexralf Erraned
Frederic
Yore
Kugalenciennes
Eaerfon
Mayence
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