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Updated: May 16, 2025
It could clearly offer no defence against the besiegers, and therefore surrendered at the first summons, the garrison, 5000 strong, retiring to the citadel and Fort Saint Chatreuse, which mounted fifty guns.
The allies attacked with extreme bravery, and the citadel was carried by storm here as at Venloo, the British troops being the first who scaled the breach. Thus 2000 prisoners were taken; and the garrison of Fort Chatreuse were so disheartened at the speedy fall of the citadel, that they capitulated a few days later. This brought the first campaign of the war to an end.
However, there was now nothing to prevent their undertaking the siege of Liege, and on the 20th of October the regular investment of the place was formed. The strength of Liege consisted in its citadel and the Fort of Chatreuse, both strongly fortified. The town itself, a wealthy city, and so abounding in churches that it was called "Little Rome," was defended only by a single wall.
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