Battle of La Tremblaye
Lescure wounded in the battle of La Tremblaye, stained glass window by Jean Clamens in Le Pin-en-Mauges , around 1890.
| date | October 15, 1793 |
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| place | Cholet |
| output | Victory of the revolutionary troops |
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| Troop strength | |
| 15,000 | 30,000 to 40,000 |
| losses | |
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500 killed or wounded |
1200 to 1500 fallen |
The Battle of La Tremblaye took place on October 15, 1793. She was part of the Vendée uprising . The venue was south of Cholet at the “La Tremblaye” castle. The Republicans won and as a result were able to take the city of Cholet.
prehistory
The "Armée de Mayence" had made further progress and had burned everything on their way. On October 13th she took Clisson , then Tiffauges and on October 14th Torfou . On October 13, the 3,000 men of the Central Army of the Catholic and Royal Army of the Vendée, under the command of Charles de Royrand, were repulsed by General Antoine Marie Bard's Division de Luçon , which had set Les Herbiers and La Verrie on fire, and moved then returned to Mortagne .
However, the generals of the Vendée decided to evacuate this city, withdraw to Cholet and send the artillery to Beaupréau . The order was carried out quickly, on October 15 the troops of General Jean-Baptiste Kléber entered Mortagne, which they found abandoned. 1,500 Republican prisoners were left in their cells.
On his side the Republican general Alexis Chalbos had arranged his troops at Bressuire and resumed his march. The three republican armies advanced towards Cholet, where the decisive battle seemed to be about to begin.
The battle
Maurice Gigost d'Elbée , Louis de Salgues de Lescure , Charles de Bonchamps and Charles de Royrand moved their troops to Saint-Christophe-du-Bois . D'Elbée sent a courier to François Athanase de Charette de la Contrie with a request to attack the Republicans in the rear, but received no response.
On October 15, the "Armée de Mayence" and the "Division de Luçon" attacked the castle of La Tremblaye in the southwest of Cholet.
Louis de Salgues de Lescure, however, managed to push back the "Division de Luçon", which had been exhausted by a march lasting several days. The wounded General Bard had to be replaced by his Adjudant-général Marceau . However, General Beaupuy arrived as reinforcements and pushed the Vendéens back. Louis de Salgues de Lescure was busy collecting his men when a bullet hit him in the head, seriously injuring him. This ended with the Vendéens, who believed their general was dead, demoralized and withdrew to Cholet.
Effects
In the evening the Vendée council met in Cholet while the Republican soldiers camped outside the city. The generals wanted to defend the place, but the troops ran out of ammunition , artillery and powder remained in Beaupréau with General Marigny . Antoine-Philippe de La Trémoille , general of the cavalry , was therefore assigned to fetch guns and ammunition, but at four in the morning he still had not returned.
Finally, the Vendée generals had to decide to evacuate Cholet in order to withdraw to Beaupréau and leave the city to the Republicans.
According to the memoirs of Kléber, the Republicans recorded losses of 500 men, while the losses in the Vendéens were between 1,200 and 1,500 men.
literature
- Charles-Louis Chassin: La Vendée Patriote (1793-1800). Volume III, Édition Paul Dupont, 1893–1895, pp. 202 to 206
- Émile Gabory: Les Guerres de Vendée. Editeur Robert Laffont 2009 pp. 274/275.
- Yves Gras: La Guerre de Vendée. Éditions Economica, 1994, p. 83.
- Jean Tabeur: Paris contre la Province, les guerres de l'Ouest. Éditions Economica, 2008, p. 171.
- Auguste Billaud: La Guerre de Vendée. Fontenay-Le-Comte, 1972, impr. Lussaud, pp. 152-153.
- Jean-Baptiste Kléber : Mémoires politiques et militaires 1793–1794. Éditeur Librairie Jules Tallandier In-Texts 1989 pp. 134 to 138
Web links
Footnotes
- ^ Ernest Colon: Cartes de lieux de batailles durant la guerre de Vendée
- ↑ These were the troops that had been assigned to the Vendée from the besieged Mainz . They had nothing to do with the later "Armée de Mayence" of 1797
- ↑ Not a rank, but a position. The Adjudant-général replaced the “Maréchal de camp” in the role of “Chef d'état-major des armées” (for example: Chief of the Army Staff).
- ↑ Jean-Baptiste Kléber, Mémoires politiques et militaires 1793–1794 , pp. 134–-138.
Coordinates: 47 ° 1 ′ 14 " N , 0 ° 54 ′ 36" W.