He was present in the battles of Jemappes, of Nerwinde, and of Pellenberg.
Far more truly may we say so of Jemappes and its immediate results.
The blowing up of the Jemappes bridge gave a lot of trouble.
Yet we shall throw them back again, as we did at Wattignes and at Jemappes.
Chuquet, "Jemappes," 196–7, shows that the urgent needs of the army in Belgium were the raison d'être of the decree.
Dumouriez had only a few thousand men more than his opponent, instead of the enormous superiority he had had at Jemappes.
The invasion of the Low Countries began with a great, though somewhat informal and unfruitful success, in the victory of Jemappes.
It may be imagined, therefore, what an effect the news of Jemappes had upon the political world in Paris.
At the battle of Jemappes, in the succeeding November, she distinguished herself by her bravery, and received six wounds.
His son as a young man had served in the revolutionary army and had been one of its leaders in the important victory of Jemappes.
