[Revolution francaise] Lettre de Soldat - à ses parents [ Raconte son entrée dans Bruxelles et la conquête du pays Liégeois ] - 1793

1793, Year II of the French Republic.

My dear father and mother, I take this moment, as I am in good health, to assure you of my very humble respect at the beginning of this new year since I could not write last month; I was sick... six weeks... nevertheless I joined my battalion. On the sixteenth of the present month, a few days after the taking of MONS, I wrote you a letter a few days before I fell ill, but I am very worried about whether you received it... that you would be ill and that something would cause you sorrow; there is a small bit of news from Mons and BRUSSELS. We fired several cannon shots that shattered all the panes of the suburbs, and we entered there with great joy, delivering from bondage six hundred French prisoners whom the enemy did not have time to take away, how? because we pursued them too fiercely and planted the Sign of Liberty, at LOUVAIN we fired several cannon shots and entered there around two o’clock in the afternoon and also planted the Tree of Liberty... [then the Liégeois country...].. we paraded through the city of LIEGE and the burghers came forward with laurel wreaths and cries from all sides... drums beating, the enemy fled like thieves... [battle of Verviers..] ... the general took 1000 peasants to work at the trench to place the cannon pieces to make the siege... ... etc ..etc...

.. I am for life your son, Citizen Ruelle, volunteer of the 5th company of the 1st battalion of Seine and Marne, army of Belgium."

(This is a request on the first page:) "Please tell me who has recently gone to assist the Republic."

[ Unfortunately on 18 March 1793, the Imperial Austrian army of Prince of Saxe-Cobourg decisively defeats the French army under Dumouriez at the Battle of Neerwinden, and the French must evacuate Brussels. ]

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