Battle of Chantonnay
Battle of Chantonnay | |||||||
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Part of the War in the Vendée | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
French Royalists | Republican France | ||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Maurice d'Elbée Charles de Bonchamps | René Lecomte François Marceau | ||||||
Strength | |||||||
25,000, 21 guns | 7,500–8,000 | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
500 | 4,000–5,000 |
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- 1st Machecoul
- Jallais
- 1st Cholet
- Pont-Charrault
- 1st Pornic
- 1st Sables-d'Olonne
- 2nd Pornic
- 2nd Sables-d'Olonne
- 1st Coron
- Chemillé
- Aubiers
- Challans
- Saint-Gervais
- Vezins
- 1st Port-Saint-Pierre
- 2nd Machecoul
- 1st Beaupréau
- 1st Beaulieu-sous-la-Roche
- 1st Legé
- Thouars
- 1st Saint-Colombin
- 2nd Port-Saint-Père
- 1st La Châtaigneraie
- Palluau
- Fontenay-le-Comte
- 3rd Machecoul
- Doué
- Montreuil-Bellay
- Saumur
- 1st Luçon
- Nantes
- Parthenay
- 1st Moulin-aux-Chèvres
- 1st Châtillon
- Martigné-Briand
- Vihiers
- Ponts-de-Cé
- 2nd Luçon
- Château d'Aux
- 3rd Luçon
- La Roche-sur-Yon
- Vertou
- Chantonnay
- Vrines
- 1st Montaigu
- Tiffauges
- Coron
- Pont-Barré
- 2nd Montaigu
- Saint-Fulgent
- Pallet
- 1st Noirmoutier
- Treize-Septiers
- 2nd Moulin-aux-Chèvres
- 2nd Châtillon
- 2nd Noirmoutier
- La Tremblaye
- 2nd Cholet
The Battle of Chantonnay (5 September 1793) saw Royalist and Republican French forces clash at Chantonnay during the War in the Vendée. In the wake of his victory at Luçon, Augustin Tuncq sent 7,000 Republican troops under René François Lecomte to occupy an exposed position at Chantonnay. Reacting to the threat, 25,000 Vendeans rebels with 21 cannons led by Maurice d'Elbée and Charles de Bonchamps attacked and crushed the Republicans in a four-hour struggle in which François Séverin Marceau-Desgraviers distinguished himself. Only 2,500 out of 7,500 Republicans escaped the disaster.
References
- Johnson, Thomas George (1896). Francois-Severin Marceau (1769–1796). London: George Bell & Sons. Retrieved 25 June 2015.
- Smith, Digby (1998). The Napoleonic Wars Data Book. London: Greenhill. ISBN 1-85367-276-9.
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