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Jenks's Portland Gazette
Portland, Cumberland County, Maine
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General Vucavovich reports from Ceva on June 4 entering the town and capturing 1800 French soldiers along with the wives of Generals Moreau and Fiorella, planning to release the women. He describes French atrocities in a Mondovi nunnery, including killing nuns, and states the French have retreated to the fortress of Coni.
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"Ceva, June 4.
I have this day entered Ceva, where I made prisoners 1800 Frenchmen, and the wives of generals Moreau and Fiorella ; but as I do not wage war against women, I shall send them both back tomorrow, to the French out posts, attended by my adjutant. As I was marching through Mondovi I saw a nunnery, where the French committed excesses before their retreat : They cut in pieces some of the nuns ; the rest they crushed to death with blows of the butt end of their muskets : The French are now all at Coni, which fortress being very strong by nature, will rather retard the progress of our troops."
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Ceva
Event Date
June 4
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1800 french prisoners captured; wives of moreau and fiorella to be released; french atrocities killed nuns in mondovi nunnery; french retreated to coni fortress
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Entered Ceva and captured 1800 Frenchmen and wives of generals Moreau and Fiorella, planning to send wives back; observed French excesses in Mondovi nunnery where nuns were cut to pieces or crushed with musket butts; French now at strong fortress of Coni, retarding troop progress