Siege News From Valenciennes and Camp Denain
The report details hostilities around Valenciennes with Fort Condé's defense faltering then holding. A Scheldt bridge advances to link armies while 25 000 men form an observation army near Denain. Casualties and desertions are noted as siege works progress and emigre engineer Freeugo directs operations.
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Prince DR Cobourg
Condé
Clacis
Regiment Royal Allemand
Famars
Valenciennes
Scheldt
Fontenelle
Onniuing
M. Ce Freeugo
L4e
Prince de Cozourc
Denain
Prince Evesne
Marshal Viriars
Cusrine
Prince de Cosoure
Levee and Garter Ceremony at St James Amid Royal Pageantry
London reports detail a noon arrival from Windsor to St James for a Levee and a Chapter of the Most Noble Order of the Garter. The ceremony seated titles including the Earl of Westmorland, the Earl of Carlisle, and the Duchess of Grarrox with various nobility present. Presentations to the King followed, then five o’clock departure for Windsor. Dispatches for Bengal closed at the India House. General Dumourier stayed in Brussels. A contested British Peerage seat race pits Lords Hererows Lod Gattowss and Kinwaran.
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Windsor
St. James
Most Noble Order of the Garter
Salisbury
Lichfield
Coventry
Isaac Heard
Carter
Francis Molyreux
Marquis of Salisbury
Duke of Lerps
Duke of Dumbertanp
Prince of
Earl of Westmortane
Ireland
Earl of Burr
Dublin Castle
Ifaac Heard
Earl of
Carlisle
Marquis of Stafford
Earl of Chatham
Earl of Gurup
Duchess of
C. Lone
A. Blume
Buller
Foot Guards
J. Baffet
WycomsEs
Navy
James Duneas
Earl Fitzwilliam
Inpra‘Company
Bombay
Bengal
Kent
India House
Dumourier
Brusels
Paris Convention Turmoil Fuels Fears of Civil War
A Paris Convention scene described as tumultuous with protests and interruptions. The President faced contempt and was dragged from his chair as armed guards intervened. In Poitiers Royalists hold, Herbert’s arrest sparks riot, and the Revolutionary Tribunal frees Gen. Stengel.
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Paris
Posiers
Hebert
Commons
le Pere du Chene
Ararat
Committee of Twelve
Herbert
Hall of the Commons
Roufeau
Stengel
dix-la-Chapelle
Turbulent Paris Convention Debates Twelve Commission
The National Convention faces a fiery session over the dissolution of the Extraordinary Commission of Twelve. Deputies clash as reports of armed forces and treason swirl, with calls to release prisoners and defend liberty against an alleged Dumourier plot.
Paris Commons May 27 Demand Release of Hebert
Sixteen sections present in the Commons demanded liberty for citizen Hebert a member imprisoned by order of the Commission of Twelve The Lefton of La Cite informed the Council of the arrest of its President and Secretary Proclamations were abroad urging crowds to march to the Abbey prison.
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Home Department
Convention
Paris
Commons
Hebert
Constituent Assembly
Tribunes
Meyer
Mail
Butte
Aux
Moulins
Witout
Boyer
Fenfrede
Tard
Rile
Atlac Elles
Commission of Twelve
la Cité
Council
Paris Gazette: Meaux Tribunal Condemns Priest to Death
The Military Tribunal of Meaux condemned Jacques Brodeau, a priest, to death on the 27th, in a Paris Gazette report. Supreme sentence issued amid wartime trials and public sentiment in Meaux.
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Paris Gazettes
Patie Pe
Military Tribunal of
Meaux
Jacques Brodeau
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the King
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Dorset
R. H. the Prince of Wales Duke of Grafton
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Tribune
Committee of General Safety
Committee of ‘Twelve
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Levasseur
Gunder
North
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Levateur
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Rillaud de Varennes
Committee of 12
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Legendre
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Rabaut
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D& Pees
Ser
la Fraternité
Faris
Catton
Committee of Public Safety
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Es Alos
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Cambon
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