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Monthly Chronicle.
of the Fort of Kelil , on the Upper Rhine ; but that in the evening the French , being reinforced from Strasburg , compelled him to evacuate it with considerable loss . ' " . The letter of Colonel Craufurd is as follows : — Head Quarters of the Archduke CHAW . ES cf Austria , Sehzeetxingen , September 30 , 1796 . MY LORD ,
" I have the honour to inform your Lordship , that General Moreau , after abandoning ills positions on ibe Leek , directed his ietreat ,,. with a very considerable part of the Army , towards TJI 111 . " Six Commissaries , and all the people belonging to the Bread Department , - were taken , on the 22 d instant , upon the roads leading from Uhn towards Constadtand Stutgard . They had been sent forward to prepare bread at the two latter p laces for isr Divisions of Genera ! Morer . u ' s Army ; from which circumstance , as well as from other intelligence , it was evidentthat his intention was to cross
, the Danube at Ulm , and retreat by Stntgard and Consiadt towards Kelil . But Major-General Kauendorff , advaticing from the neighbourhood of Nordlingen , arrived before Ulm , time enough to . frustrate General Morcau ' s design , so that when , on the z ; d , a strong column of the Enemy defiled out of the town , they found the heights , commanding the read towards Stutgard , already occupied , and did not attempt to force them . The next day , General Nauendorff made his Advanced Guard ( under Major-Genera ! O'Reilly ) attack this corps , and drove it hack to the gates of Ulm .
" The Enemy , fmding himself thus prevented from executing his intended march to Consttuit and Stutgard , abandoned Ulm on the ttGth instant , leaving in it a large Magazine , and a considerable number of his pontoons , and proceeded along the left bank of the Danube , as far as Erbach , where he again crossed the river , and directed his retreat ( as it is supposed ) lowards the Forest Towns . ' ' General Nauendorff marched on the 27 th by Blaubeitren towards Tubingen , where lie would come into communication with Major-Genera ! Meerfeldt , who was at lleckingen .
"Lieni-uiant-G-nera ! Petra . ch , affcrbeing informed of the Enemy ' s having been frustrated in his attempt to retreat by Stutgard , directed bis march by Horb towards Villingen ; a detachment from his corps , under Colonei D'Aspre , occupyin" the Kniebv , and the Valley of Kinsig , the Reitch , and the Murg . A corps that had been detached by General Moreau to reinforce the Posts of Kehl , had attempted to force the Kinsig Valley , but was repulsed , and obliged to retreat bv Frevbourg . " ' ' General Peirasc ! Me . rfeldtand Nauendorffin immediate and close
co-ope-; , . , ration with each other , will endeavour to fall upon the left flank of General Moreau ' s retreat , whilst Genera ! La Tour pursues him in front , and General Frolich presses on his ri ;; ht . " General Neu has lately driven back the Enemy ' s Posts near Mayence , and taken a considerable number of prisoners . ' ¦ ' General Bournonville is arri ' . ed as Commander in Chief of the French Army of the Sambre and the Meuse , in place of General Jourdan ; but he has not yet
attempted to advance . i have the honour to be , Sir , & c . ROBERT C .. ACFIT . D . " The Gazette also contains the folln-. ving intelligence . w : i .: tt : i . M . s : i .-M > -i- SEPT . 21 , 179 '' . " A report of General Moreau's directing his retreat through Franconia , in order to form a junction with Jourdan-ty Fulda , proves to have been industriously spread with a design to create alarm ; but was , nevertheless , founded on the circumstance of the enemy having pushed a corps of Cavalry as far as Aichstadt . " The acts of licentious barbarity that have ol ' iate been committed by the Enemy even exceeded every thing we have heard of their cruelly before . Numbers
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Monthly Chronicle.
of the Fort of Kelil , on the Upper Rhine ; but that in the evening the French , being reinforced from Strasburg , compelled him to evacuate it with considerable loss . ' " . The letter of Colonel Craufurd is as follows : — Head Quarters of the Archduke CHAW . ES cf Austria , Sehzeetxingen , September 30 , 1796 . MY LORD ,
" I have the honour to inform your Lordship , that General Moreau , after abandoning ills positions on ibe Leek , directed his ietreat ,,. with a very considerable part of the Army , towards TJI 111 . " Six Commissaries , and all the people belonging to the Bread Department , - were taken , on the 22 d instant , upon the roads leading from Uhn towards Constadtand Stutgard . They had been sent forward to prepare bread at the two latter p laces for isr Divisions of Genera ! Morer . u ' s Army ; from which circumstance , as well as from other intelligence , it was evidentthat his intention was to cross
, the Danube at Ulm , and retreat by Stntgard and Consiadt towards Kelil . But Major-General Kauendorff , advaticing from the neighbourhood of Nordlingen , arrived before Ulm , time enough to . frustrate General Morcau ' s design , so that when , on the z ; d , a strong column of the Enemy defiled out of the town , they found the heights , commanding the read towards Stutgard , already occupied , and did not attempt to force them . The next day , General Nauendorff made his Advanced Guard ( under Major-Genera ! O'Reilly ) attack this corps , and drove it hack to the gates of Ulm .
" The Enemy , fmding himself thus prevented from executing his intended march to Consttuit and Stutgard , abandoned Ulm on the ttGth instant , leaving in it a large Magazine , and a considerable number of his pontoons , and proceeded along the left bank of the Danube , as far as Erbach , where he again crossed the river , and directed his retreat ( as it is supposed ) lowards the Forest Towns . ' ' General Nauendorff marched on the 27 th by Blaubeitren towards Tubingen , where lie would come into communication with Major-Genera ! Meerfeldt , who was at lleckingen .
"Lieni-uiant-G-nera ! Petra . ch , affcrbeing informed of the Enemy ' s having been frustrated in his attempt to retreat by Stutgard , directed bis march by Horb towards Villingen ; a detachment from his corps , under Colonei D'Aspre , occupyin" the Kniebv , and the Valley of Kinsig , the Reitch , and the Murg . A corps that had been detached by General Moreau to reinforce the Posts of Kehl , had attempted to force the Kinsig Valley , but was repulsed , and obliged to retreat bv Frevbourg . " ' ' General Peirasc ! Me . rfeldtand Nauendorffin immediate and close
co-ope-; , . , ration with each other , will endeavour to fall upon the left flank of General Moreau ' s retreat , whilst Genera ! La Tour pursues him in front , and General Frolich presses on his ri ;; ht . " General Neu has lately driven back the Enemy ' s Posts near Mayence , and taken a considerable number of prisoners . ' ¦ ' General Bournonville is arri ' . ed as Commander in Chief of the French Army of the Sambre and the Meuse , in place of General Jourdan ; but he has not yet
attempted to advance . i have the honour to be , Sir , & c . ROBERT C .. ACFIT . D . " The Gazette also contains the folln-. ving intelligence . w : i .: tt : i . M . s : i .-M > -i- SEPT . 21 , 179 '' . " A report of General Moreau's directing his retreat through Franconia , in order to form a junction with Jourdan-ty Fulda , proves to have been industriously spread with a design to create alarm ; but was , nevertheless , founded on the circumstance of the enemy having pushed a corps of Cavalry as far as Aichstadt . " The acts of licentious barbarity that have ol ' iate been committed by the Enemy even exceeded every thing we have heard of their cruelly before . Numbers