Army of the West (France)
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The Army of the West was one of the French Revolutionary Armies that was sent to fight in the War in the Vendée in western France. The army was created on 2 October 1793 by merging the Army of the Coa
Jean Rossignol was understood to be inept.
Louis Turreau
Lazare Hoche
Thomas-Alexandre Dumas
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Divisional-General Thomas-Alexandre Dumas was a French Army officer who served in the French Revolutionary Wars. Along with fellow French officers Joseph Serrant and Toussaint Louverture, Abram Petrov
Army of the West (France)
…3,000 men were sent to the Army of the Western Pyrenees and 15,000 to the armies on the Rhine. On 16 August, a new order assigned the army command to Thomas-Alexandre Dumas. At that time, its strength was 45,000 men. Turreau was arrested after the fall of Robespierre, but he convinced a court-martial that he was only…
Portrait by Guillaume Guillon-Lethière, c. 1797
Statue of General Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, melted down following a 1941 decision of the Nazi occupation authorities
The Champ de Mars massacre, at which Dumas was present
1883 portrait of Dumas