Second Battle of Châtillon

Second Battle of Châtillon
	Part of the War in the Vendée
Date	11 October 1793
Location	Châtillon-sur-Sèvre, France
Result	Inconclusive
Belligerents
French Royalists	Republican France
Commanders and leaders
Louis de Lescure; Charles Bonchamps	Alexis Chalbos; F.-J. Westermann; François Muller; René Lecomte †
Units involved
Catholic and Royal Army	Army of the Coasts of La Rochelle
Strength
unknown	20,000

The Second Battle of Châtillon (11 October 1793) was fought between Royalist and Republican French forces at Châtillon-sur-Sèvre during the War in the Vendée. A 20,000-man Republican column commanded by Alexis Chalbos from the Army of the Coasts of La Rochelle was attacked and routed by Vendean Royalist forces led by Louis Marie de Lescure and Charles de Bonchamps. That night a few hundred Republicans under François Joseph Westermann raided the rebel encampment. Before the Vendeans killed or drove them off, the raiders inflicted severe losses on drunken rebel fighters and non-combatant women and children. The Vendeans withdrew toward Mortagne-sur-Sèvre the next day. Republican general René François Lecomte was mortally wounded in the battle, dying a few days later.

References

Johnson, Thomas George (1896). Francois-Severin Marceau (1769–1796). London: George Bell & Sons. Retrieved 25 June 2015.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)

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