Battle of Savenay: Royalist Counter-Revolution Crushed in France
Republican forces annihilated the last major royalist army at Savenay, ending the Vendee uprising's military threat to the French Revolution. Thousands of prisoners were executed in the aftermath, and the subsequent "infernal columns" campaign through the countryside killed tens of thousands of civilians in what some historians classify as the first modern genocide.
December 23, 1793
233 years ago
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House of Bourbon
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French Revolution
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War in the Vendée
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Savenay
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Revolt in the Vendée
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Battle of Savenay
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Battle of Savenay
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House of Bourbon
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War in the Vendée
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French Revolution
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Jacques-Alexis de Verteuil
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Jean-Baptiste Kléber
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