novel
Comtesse de Charny
Alexandre Dumas, 1890
Named on the page for Battle of Valmy.
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20 September 1792
Battle of Valmy
VALMY. 321
battle. Dumouriez therefore sent word to Kellermann to take the heights of Valmy and of Gizaucourt as his field of battle. Kellermann confounded his camp with his field of battle, and stopped on the heights of Valmy. This was either a great mistake or a terrible venture.
VALMY. 321
The day began in gloom, and was darkened by a heavy fog. This the Prussians did not mind, for they knew where the French army lay. The French (so the Prussians believed) were all on the heights of Valmy.
SEPTEMBER TWENTY-FIRST. 329
At the close of that year France was at war with the two great powers of the North. There was civil war in the Vendee. There was a debt of 2,200,000,000 (over two billions) of francs in assignats, or paper bonds. Then there was the victory of Valmy, won on the previous day, but still unknown in Paris.
SEPTEMBER TWENTY-FIRST. 329
On September 20, however, the very day of the battle of Valmy, other fighters were engaged in a far more decisive affray.
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