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English: The Action at Villers-en-Cauchies 24th April 1794, reproduced in XVth (The King's Hussars) 1759 to 1913 (Colonel H. C. Wylly, Caxton Publishing 1914)

Numerical Description of the Sketch of the Action of April 24, 1794

1.Fontaine au Targue, a farm-house, where the hussars, the heavy cavalry, and 15th Light Dragoons lay on their army the night previous to the attack. 2. The 15th Light Dragoons and hussars marching to the attack. 3. The heavy cavalry marching to the attack. 4. The heavy cavalry hear abandoned the light dragoons. 5. Austrian Hussars. 6. The right squadron of the 15th Light Dragoons. 7. The left squadron of the 15th Light Dragoons. 8.Villers en Cauches crowded with troops and cannons. 9. A hill. 10. French cavalry. 11. French infantry, with cannon and colours. 12. A ravine, where the French lost great numbers after the charge. 13. The French cavalry retreating in disorder. 14. Bouchain. 15. Haspres. 16. Solesmes. 17. Cateau. 18. Valenciennes. 19. Bermerain St. Marie, the village through which the Emperor had to pass on the day of the attack, and of which the French had taken possession, but were obliged to abandon, in consequence of the attack made on a body of their troops on the right. 20. The enemy pursued to this spot, but the Allied troops being now beset by many thousands, collected from Bouchain and other towns, a rear-guard was formed, and the retreat executed in good order in the face of the enemy. 21. French forces advancing. 22. French skirmishers. 23. The 15th Dragoons skirmishers. 24. The rear-guard of the Fifteenth facing the enemy. 25. The rear-guard of the Fifteenth retreating.

26. The body of the Fifteenth retreating.
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