Battle at Échaubrognes
Royalist insurgent
| date | May 18, 1815 |
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| place | Saint-Pierre-des-Échaubrognes and Mauléon |
| output | Victory of the royalists |
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| 1,200 men | 2,000 men |
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10 killed, 30 or more wounded |
14 dead, 15 or more wounded |
The battle at Échaubrognes took place on May 18, 1815 between the 26th e régiment d'infanterie of the Napoleonic Army under the command of Colonel Marie Stanislas Prévost and a troop of rebels loyal to the king under the command of Auguste du Vergier de La Rochejaquelein (brother of Henri de La Rochejaquelein ) and Simon Canuel between the localities of Saint-Pierre-des-Échaubrognes and Mauléon .
The battle
On May 17, 1815, a force of 2,000 insurgents loyal to the king, under the command of Auguste du Vergier de La Rochejaquelein and Simon Canuel, moved to Bressuire when they learned that the 1,200-strong 26 e RI was on its way to their vicinity Cholet found.
The royalist officers decided to attack and ambushed Saint-Pierre-des-Échaubrognes the next day. However, the royalists lacked effective weapons and ammunition, whereupon the imperial regiment evaded to Châtillon-sur-Sèvre and the small group of insurgents located there fled. The regimental commander, Colonel Marie Stanislas Prévost, had gathered his troops and soon realized that the pursuing royalists were out of ammunition and that a large number were not even equipped with rifles. He therefore ordered a counterattack, the outcome of which enabled him and his regiment to leave Cholet in an orderly manner.
losses
According to Canuel, the imperial casualties amounted to 30 dead and as many wounded. Baron Saulnier, inspector general of the imperial cavalry, contradicted this by giving only 10 dead and only a few wounded and prisoners.
In his "Mémoires" André Mercier du Rocher (1756-1816) writes that 54 soldiers of the 26 e RI had been captured. Of these, 28 were released and 26 were executed. However, this information is not confirmed by any other source. The historian Aurélien Lignereux, no sympathizer of Rocher, reports that all of Rochejaquelein's prisoners were released.
According to Berthre de Bourniseaux, the royalists had 10 dead and 15 wounded, the imperial 40 dead and wounded and 20 prisoners.
After the end of the war, compensation payments were made to the families of the fallen royalists. In the investigations into the actual losses, a number of 14 fallen royalists in the battle at Échaubrognes was found.
Coordinates: 46 ° 59 ′ 25 ″ N , 0 ° 44 ′ 35 ″ W.
Footnotes
- ^ Lawyer, revolutionary, militant Jacobin and man of letters
- ↑ Lignereux, 2015, pp. 216–218.
- ↑ Lignereux, 2015, p. 172.
literature
- Aurélien Lignereux: Chouans et Vendéens contre l'Empire, 1815. L'autre Guerre des Cent-Jours. Éditions Vendémiaire, Paris 2015, ISBN 978-2-36358-187-7 .
- Émile Gabory: Les guerres de Vendée (= Bouquins ). Robert Laffont, 2009, ISBN 978-2-221-11309-7 , p. 811.
- Hervé Coutau-Bégarie, Charles Doré-Graslin: Histoire militaire des guerres de Vendée. Economica, Paris 2010, ISBN 978-2-7178-5828-0 , pp. 575-576 ( limited preview in Google book search).
- Pierre Victor J. Berthre de Bourniseaux: Histoire des guerres de la Vendée et des Chouans, depuis l'année 1792 jusqu'en 1815. Volume III. Brunot-Labbe, Paris 1819, pp. 34–37 ( limited preview in Google book search).