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 chasseurs de le Loup prevented them. These chasseurs were in the village of Quaregnon, which presented a ravine along my front with the houses and bushes, and though the French troops fired about eighty cannon to dislodge them, nothing could move them from their post. All this affair happened between the village of Quaregnon and Jemappe on our right, and Frameries before our left.

"The enemy not being able to pierce on this side, turned to the left, which is only a plain, with a small wood placed opposite the angle of our front.

"They shewed themselves in great numbers on our left; but having seen the cavalry which I placed on the flank, they confined themselves to making some manoeuvres at the distance of three thousand paces, and then imperceptibly retired towards Boussut and its wood, though however, they still remained in sight.

"Our chasseurs killed twenty of the enemy on the place, and amongst them were two cannoneers, a horse of a Lieutenant Colonel of French hussars, the rider wounded and made prisoner, and probably as many others were wounded.

"The French were in number eleven, twelve, or thirteen thousand men. It is easily perceived in every instance, that they are the aggressors.

"The enemy, who did not push farther that day, on the 30th began to march at day break to attack Marshal Beaulieu, who, on this side, having been reinforced with two battalions, had advanced part of his troops; he had a short engagement with them, an account of the most essential part of which is subjoined in the report at this brave General, and which terminated in the route of the French corps, who, at eleven in the morning had already re-passed our frontiers on their return to Valenciennes."

Extract from the Report of Lieutenant-General de Beaulieu, to Marshal Bender, dated the 30th of April, from the Windmill, at Boussut.

"I send you my Adjutant Reichel, a witness of the events of this day. At three in the morning the enemy attacked the right body of my army, at the village of Jamappe. The captain of Thierris's chasseurs informed me, that the enemy at the same time were marching towards Frameries, where he was with his chasseurs.

"I went immediately to the left flank, and saw a strong French column — a number of platoons of cavalry preceding them. I took my resolutions instantly; two battalions of