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 10 The Duke of York returned to Tournay, in which place and the neighbourhood, he continued until the close of the campaign. On the 22d and 26th October the enemy were repulsed in some at tempts upon his advanced posts, near Baisieux and Cysoing. On the 28th October, His Royal Highness made an attack upon Lannoy, in co- operation with a movement which General Wal- moden undertook, by his direction, against Menin, which the enemy had occupied. The result of these operations was the evacuation by the enemy of Menin, and their abandonment of the invest- ment of Ypres, and of the siege of Nieuport, which they had been incouraged by his Royal Highness's march to Englefontaine to undertake. In the de- fence of Nieuport, part of a detachment which had landled at Ostend, under Sir Charles Grey, as a temporary reinforcement to the Duke of York's army, had co-operated." On the 29th of October, a very brilliant attack and surprise of the enemy and fortified port of Marchiennes, in which they lost more than 2000 men, was executed by General Keay, under the orders of His Royal Highness. Some trifling affairs in front of Tominay, and on the Lys, to- wards the end of November, terminated the can- paign in West Flanders. The army went into winter quarters, the Duke of York's head quarters being at Ghent; whence, attended by General Mack, he proceeded to England, to concert the plan and measures for the ensuing campaign, with the British Government. His Royal Highness returned, in the month of February 1794, from England to Courtrai. The army had been considerably reinforced by drafts from the British regiments, and by addi-