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Gazette Of The United States & Evening Advertiser
Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania
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French forces plundered Spires, destroyed emigrant houses, and imposed a 400,000 livres contribution under threat of destruction. Inhabitants, unable to pay fully, provided provisions and forage, resulting in severe distress.
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We have positive assurances that the French, after having plundered all they could lay their hands on at Spires, and laid waste a great number of the houses belonging to the emigrants, have laid on that city a contribution of 400,000 livres, under penalty of fire and ravage. The inhabitants are entirely stripped of the poor remains of their property and as, notwithstanding this last effort, they have been unable to muster so large a sum, they have supplied the deficiency as far as they have been able, by provisions and forage for the French army. The wretched inhabitants of Spires are now plunged in an almost incredible degree of distress and perplexity.
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Primary Location
Spires
Event Date
March 14
Outcome
imposed contribution of 400,000 livres; inhabitants unable to pay fully, supplied provisions and forage instead; severe distress among inhabitants.
Event Details
The French plundered all they could in Spires, laid waste to many emigrant houses, and levied a 400,000 livres contribution under penalty of fire and ravage. Inhabitants, stripped of remaining property, covered the shortfall with provisions and forage for the French army, leaving them in extreme distress and perplexity.