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The Battle of Luçon was actually a series of three engagements fought over four weeks, the first on 15 July and the last on 14 August 1793, between Republican forces under Augustin Tuncq and Vendean forces. The engagement on 14 August, fought near the town of Luçon was actually the conclusion of three engagements between Maurice d'Elbée's Vendean insurgents and the Republican army. On 15 July, Claude Sandoz and a garrison of 800 had repulsed 5,000 insurgents led by d'Elbee; on 28 July, Tuncq drove off a second attempt; two weeks later, Tuncq and his 5,000 men routed 30,000 insurgents under the personal command of François de Charette. [34] Battle of Montaigu [ edit ]

Follow the links of towns and cities of the Vendée department and see photos, maps, and informations for these towns. The president of the Departmental Council is Alain Lebœuf, elected in July 2021. Previous Presidents were Bruno Retailleau and Philippe de Villiers. Poire-sur-Velluire-le . A village on the edge of the Marais Poitevin it has an ancient common where locals can graze... Read More... St.Martin-de-Re . Within the Charente Maritime this picturesque fortified harbour on the Ile-de-Re Read More... Debate over the characterization of the Vendée uprising was renewed in 2007, when nine deputies introduced a measure to the National Assembly to officially recognize the Republican actions as genocidal. [75] The measure was strongly denounced by a group of Far Left French historians as an attempt to use history to justify political extremism. [76] [ full citation needed]Vendée ( French pronunciation: [vɑ̃de] ⓘ; Breton: Vande) is a department in the Pays de la Loire region in western France, on the Atlantic coast. In 2019, it had a population of 685,442. [3] Its prefecture is La Roche-sur-Yon. Among those killed towards the end of the conflict were Blessed Guillaume Repin and 98 other religious figures, many of whom were later beatified by the Catholic Church. [47] Louis Prévost (comte) de la Boutetière, Le chevalier de Sapinaud et les chefs vendéens du centre, Paris, 1869, p. 25

St Hilaire des loges . At the point where the prairie rolls over into the bocage east of Fontenay-le-Comte, lays the village of St Hilaire des Loges. Read More...Téléchargement du fichier d'ensemble des populations légales en 2020". The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 29 December 2022. Jacques Hussenet (dir.), «Détruisez la Vendée!» Regards croisés sur les victimes et destructions de la guerre de Vendée, La Roche-sur-Yon, Centre vendéen de recherches historiques, 2007, pp. 452–53 North, Jonathan (April 2003). "General Hoche and Counterinsurgency". The Journal of Military History. 67 (2): 529–540.