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.
The wounded General Lescure crosses the Loire at Saint-Florent
The Rout of Cholet, by Jules Giradet.
Portrait of Jean-Baptiste Kléber by Jean-Urbain Guérin, 1798
Jean Léchelle
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Jean Léchelle or Jean L'Échelle briefly commanded a French army during the French Revolutionary Wars. Having served in the French Royal Army as a youth, the outbreak of the French Revolution found him
Siege of Valenciennes, 1793
Léchelle proved to be worse than the inept Jean Antoine Rossignol.