" 10. (22nd Prairial). Law reconstituting the Revolutionary
Tribunal.
" 26. Jourdan, having superseded Hoche, wins the battle
of Fleurus. The French re-occupy Belgium.
_July_ 27. (9th Thermidor). Fall of Robespierre.
_Sept._ Successes of Suvórof in Poland.
_Oct._ 10. Crushing defeat of the Poles at Maciejowice.
_Nov._ 7. Capitulation of Warsaw to the Russians.
" 12. Closing of the Jacobin Club in Paris.
_Dec._ 8. The seventy-three Girondist Deputies recalled to
the Convention.
" 23. Repeal of the Maximum Laws.
Decisive movement of the French troops against
Holland.
1795. _Jan._ 3. Russia and Austria in the Treaty of St. Petersburg
settle the terms of the final partition of Poland.
The French enter Utrecht, Amsterdam and the
Hague, and the Stadtholder flies. The complete
conquest of Holland follows.
_Feb._ Truces between the Republican generals and the
Vendéan chiefs.
_Mar._ 2. Arrest of Billaud-Varennes, Collot d'Herbois,
Barère and Vadier decreed by the Convention.
" 8. The survivors of the Girondists proscribed on the
31st May recalled to the Assembly.
_April_ 1. (12th Germinal). Bread riots and attack on the
Convention.
" 5. Treaty of Bâle between France and Prussia.
_May_ 20. (1st Prairial). Jacobin rising and attack on the
Convention.
_June_ 8. Death of the Dauphin in prison.
_July._ Peace between France and Spain.
Failure of the Emigrants' expedition to Quiberon.
_Aug._ In the debates on the new Constitution, the Convention,
by the decrees of the 5th and 13th
Fructidor (August 22 and 30), secures the re-election
to the legislature of two-thirds of its
own body.
_Sept._ 23. Proclamation of the Constitution of the Year III,
and of the electoral decrees.
Fresh coalition between England, Austria and
Russia against France.
_Oct._ 5. (13th Vendémiaire). Rising of the reactionary
Sections against the Convention, defeated by
Bonaparte.
" 26. Close of the National Convention.
APPENDIX.
NOTE.--_The following list of books does not profess to be
comprehensive. It is a selection of some of the most important for the
use of students. Those marked with an asterisk ought alone to give a
fairly accurate knowledge of the period._
I. Text-book.
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