Second Battle of Cholet
| Second Battle of Cholet | |||||||
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| Part of the War in the Vendée | |||||||
La déroute de Cholet, by Jules Girardet | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
| French Republic | French Royalists | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
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Jean-Baptiste Kléber Jean Léchelle François Marceau Michel de Beaupuy Nicolas Haxo Louis Vimeux Marc Scherb Antoine Bard Alexis Chalbos François Muller François-Joseph Westermann |
Maurice d'Elbée (WIA) Charles Bonchamps † Henri du Vergier Jean-Nicolas Stofflet Charles de Royrand Gaspard de Marigny François de Lyrot Piron de La Varenne | ||||||
| Units involved | |||||||
| Army of the West | Catholic and Royal Army | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
| 26,000 | 40,000 | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| 4,000 killed or wounded |
8,000 killed or wounded 12 cannons lost | ||||||
The Second Battle of Cholet was fought on 17 October 1793 during the French Revolutionary Wars, between French Republican forces under generals Jean Léchelle (de jure) and Jean-Baptiste Kléber (de facto) and French Royalist Forces under Maurice d'Elbée. The battle was fought in the town of Cholet in the Maine-et-Loire department of France, and resulted in a Republican victory. D'Elbée was wounded and captured; he was later executed by Republican troops in Noirmoutier. The Royalist insurgent, Charles Melchior Artus de Bonchamps, was fatally wounded in the battle.