Second Battle of Cholet
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The Second Battle of Cholet was fought on 17 October 1793 during the French Revolutionary Wars, between French Republican forces under generals Jean Léchelle and Jean-Baptiste Kléber and French Royali
La déroute de Cholet, by Jules Girardet
Henri de La Rochejaquelein fighting at Cholet, 17 Octobre 1793, by Paul-Émile Boutigny.
Wounded General Lescure crosses the Loire at Saint-Florent
Death of Bonchamps (detail), by George Degeorge, 1837.
Virée de Galerne
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The Virée de Galerne was a military operation of the War in the Vendée during the French Revolutionary Wars across Brittany and Normandy. It takes its name from French virée and Breton gwalarn.
Second Battle of Cholet
…of the Nation", and hoped this episode would be forgotten in history. Contrary to republican hopes, the war was not over. A new campaign called the Virée de Galerne started, aiming to spread the uprising north of the Loire to Brittany and Maine. Bodart, Gaston (1908). Militär-historisches Kriegs-Lexikon (1618–1905…
Portrait of Jean-Baptiste Kléber by Jean-Urbain Guérin, 1798