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The Kentucky Gazette
Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky
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Insurrection in the Low Countries intensifies with artillery-armed rebels led by former Orange officers; departments declared in siege; French troops clash with peasants, suffering over 2,000 casualties; unrest affects Batavian Republic and French frontiers near Arlon.
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The insurrection in the low countries is stated to have assumed a most formidable appearance: the insurgents are furnished with flying and other artillery, and are commanded by officers who were formerly in the service of the prince of Orange. They style themselves the imperial Catholic army.
The departments of Brussels, Dyle, Forest, Lys, Scheldt, and Nether have been declared in a state of siege. This order, however, is to be limited to the places where the tree of liberty has been cut down, and the cocksin founded: the villages of Capille and Wellebroke have been destroyed by the military in their combats with the peasantry: at the latter place the regulars were repulsed, but returned the following day with reinforcements, after committing great slaughter obliged the insurgents to fly the woods.
On the 19th instant, nineteen wagons, with wounded French soldiers, arrived at Breda: they have lost in the several rencounters upwards of two thousand men. The loss of the rebels is estimated at five hundred men.
The Batavian government regarded these movements with particular solicitude, and has formed a corps of national troops on frontiers for its protection, and to repress a spirit of revolt prevalent throughout that republic, as well the whole district of the Rhine.
The garrisons of Thionville and Mentz have attacked a large body of insurgents collected in the neighbourhood of Arlon, killed five hundred and made 1200 prisoners: and it appears that all those parts of the French dominions, from which accurate intelligence can be received, are in a state of the greatest possible ferment.
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Low Countries
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Nov. 15
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french lost upwards of two thousand men; rebels estimated at five hundred men; at arlon, five hundred killed and 1200 prisoners; villages of capille and wellebroke destroyed
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Insurrection in low countries with insurgents armed with artillery commanded by former officers of prince of Orange styling themselves imperial Catholic army; departments of Brussels, Dyle, Forest, Lys, Scheldt, Nether in state of siege limited to places where tree of liberty cut down and cocksin founded; military destroyed villages of Capille and Wellebroke in combats with peasantry, repulsed then reinforced at Wellebroke committing great slaughter forcing insurgents to flee; on 19th instant nineteen wagons of wounded French arrived at Breda; Batavian government forms national troops on frontiers to repress revolt in republic and Rhine district; garrisons of Thionville and Mentz attacked insurgents near Arlon killing 500 and capturing 1200; French dominions in great ferment