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Conflict Europe

War in the Vendée

1793 CE – 1796 CE · 3 years

Massive royalist and Catholic counter-revolutionary uprising in western France, resulting in one of the bloodiest internal conflicts of the Revolutionary era.

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Belligerents

The main peoples, kingdoms and states involved.

  • French Revolutionary Republic
  • Royalist Catholic insurgents

Key moments

Defining events in the War in the Vendée.

  1. 1793 Battle of Cholet
  2. 1793 Virée de Galerne
  3. 1793–1794 Drownings at Nantes

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Events the timeline places between 1793 CE and 1796 CE.

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