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