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THE FRENCH REVOLUTION

Islettes,” and so to Chalons and on to Paris. But Dumouriez, marching down rapidly from the north, had set an advanced guard to hold

Sketch Map, showing the turning of the positions on the Argonne and the Cannonade at Valmy, September 1792.

that pass and was lying himself with the mass of the army on the pass to the north of it at Grandpré. Against Grandpré the Prussians marched, and meanwhile the Austrians were