Battle of Saint-Fulgent explained

Conflict:Battle of Saint-Fulgent
Partof:the War in the Vendée
Date:22 September 1793
Place:Saint-Fulgent, Vendée, France
Result:Vendean victory
Combatant1: French Royalists
Combatant2: Republican France
Commander1: Henri de La Rochejaquelein
Commander2: Jean Rossignol
Jean Mieszkowski
Units1: Catholic and Royal Army
Units2: Army of the Coasts of La Rochelle
Strength1:11,000
Strength2:6,000
Casualties1:300
Casualties2:3,000

The Battle of Saint-Fulgent (22 September 1793) saw Royalist and Republican French forces clash at Saint-Fulgent during the War in the Vendée. The 11,000 Vendean rebels, led by Henri de La Rochejaquelein, defeated a 6,000-man republican division, commanded by Jean Quirin de Mieszkowski and belonging to the Army of the Coasts of La Rochelle. Half of the Republican force was killed, wounded or captured, but rebel losses were only one tenth as many.

In mid-September, the Republican Army of the Coasts of La Rochelle, led by Jean Antoine Rossignol, advanced into the Vendée from the south and the east while the Army of the Coasts of Brest and the Army of Mainz, under Jean Baptiste Camille Canclaux, advanced from the west. In a series of battles at Coron, Pont-Barré, Tiffauges, Montaigu and Saint-Fulgent, the royalist rebels concentrated against and defeated each republican column in turn.

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