~ 10,000 dead (?) 50,000–70,000 dead | Dates 18 Oct 1793 – 23 Dec 1793 | |
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Result Decisive Republican victory Similar | ||
La vir e de galerne le g nocide vend en au nord de la loire reynald secher
The Virée de Galerne was a military operation of the War in the Vendée during the French Revolutionary Wars across Britanny and Normandy. It takes its name from "gwalarn", a Breton word for the "vent de noroît" (northwest wind).
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- La vir e de galerne le g nocide vend en au nord de la loire reynald secher
- Le groupe vir e de galerne la bourrine loulou le 16 07 2014 clip de yves le mou l
- Rout at Cholet
- Timeline
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It concerns the Vendean army's crossing of the River Loire after their defeat in the battle of Cholet on 17 October 1793 and its march to Granville in the hope of finding reinforcements there from England. Unable to take Granville on 14 November 1793, it fell back towards Savenay (23 December 1793) where it was completely destroyed by Republican troops under Kléber. The battle of Savenay marked the end of what would come to be called the first war in the Vendée.
Le groupe vir e de galerne la bourrine loulou le 16 07 2014 clip de yves le mou l
Rout at Cholet
At the end of October 1793, after a campaign planned by general Kléber, the Republican forces of the Army of the West and the Army of Mainz managed to correctly coordinate their attacks and squeeze the Vendéen forces into a pocket. Encircled, the Catholic and Royal Army of Anjou and Haut-Poitou desperately attempted to resist and risked a decisive pitched battle at Cholet on 17 October 1793, at which they were beaten. They thus had no choice but to fall back on Beaupréau to the north, the only escape route still open, then to Saint-Florent-le-Vieil, where they were cornered in a bend of the river Loire.
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