Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - An fara tayar da hankali a Lyon a ranar 29 ga Mayu, 1793. Tun a ranar 8 ga Yuli, wakilin Edmond Louis Alexis Dubois-Crancé ya so Kellermann ya jagoranci sojojinsa zuwa Lyon, amma kwamandan ya nace kan rubutaccen umarni. Babban Jacobin na Lyon, Joseph Chalier ya aika da guillotine zuwa wannan birni daga Paris. Ya shirya kashe 'yan adawa 900 a Lyon, amma an kama shi a maimakon haka. A ranar 18 ga Yuli, Chalier ya zama wanda aka kashe shi. A ranar 20 ga Yuli, Babban Taron Kasa ya umarci Kellermann da ya dakatar da tawaye a Lyon. Janar ya yi jinkiri, yana nuna cewa motsawa kan Lyon zai sa ya cire sojojin da ake buƙata don kare iyakar Alpine. Duk da haka, Kellermann ya tashi tare da sojoji 10,000 da sojan doki 3,000 a ranar 6 ga Agusta. A ƙarshe, an bukaci sojoji 28,000 don kawo Siege na Lyon
zuwa ga ƙarshe.