War in the Vendée
War in the Vendée Part of the War of the First Coalition Henri de La Rochejacquelein at the Battle of Cholet in 1793 by Paul-Émile Boutigny Date March – December 1793 Location Western France : Maine-et-Loire, Vendée, Loire-Atlantique, Deux-Sèvres (or former provinces of Anjou, Poitou, Brittany) Result French Republican victory Belligerents French Republic : Republican Vendeans Local National Guards French royalists : Catholic and Royal Army Royalist Vendeans Chouans Émigrés Supported by: Great Britain Commanders and leaders Jean Baptiste Camille Canclaux Armand Louis de Gontaut Jean Antoine Rossignol François Séverin Marceau Jean-Baptiste Kléber François Joseph Westermann Jean Baptiste Carrier Louis Marie Turreau Thomas-Alexandre Dumas Lazare Hoche Jacques Cathelineau † Maurice d'Elbée Charles de Bonchamps † Louis Marie de Lescure † Henri de la Rochejaquelein † Francois de Charette Jean-Nicolas Stofflet Charles Aimé de Royrand † Strength 130,000 – 1...