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Menin retaken by General Beaulieu. 17. The French fail in their attempt to pass the Rhine at Huningen. Decreed, that all former nobles and relations of emigrants, shall be considered as suspected, and be imprisoned. Engagement between the Spaniards and French; the former retire with loss. 18. The royalists near Saumur take the flying artillery of the republicans. 19. The siege of Lyons is commenced. Decreed, that all women shall carry tickets of civism, and wear a three-coloured cockade. Collot d'Herbois proposes to seize and bury all counter-revolutionists under the land of liberty, by means of mines. Barrere proposes to banish all those who are averse to republican government. 20. Decreed, that the vulgar aera (sic) be abolished, and that a new manner be adopted of dividing days and years, to be called the Republican Calendar. The French attack the Duke of Brunswick, and are repulsed near Bitche; several actions take place in consequence. 21. Decreed, that no produce or manufacture of England shall be imported into France or the colonies, but in French bottoms; nor foreign ships convey the

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