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Battle of Saint-Fulgent
The Battle of Saint-Fulgent (22 September 1793) saw Royalist and Republican French forces clash at Saint-Fulgent during the War in the Vendée. The 11,000 Vendean rebels led by Henri de La Rochejaquelein defeated a 6,000-man Republican division commanded by Jean Quirin de Mieszkowski belonging to the "Army of the Coasts of La Rochelle". Half of the Republican force was killed, wounded or captured while rebel losses were only one-tenth as high. In mid-September the Republican "Army of
few days later, a flanking Republican division under Charles François Duhoux was beaten in the Battle of Pont-Barré. In mid-September the Republican "Army of the Coasts of La Rochelle" under Jean Antoine Rossignol advanced into the Vendée from the south and east at the same time as the "Army of the Coasts of Brest" and the "Army of Mainz" commanded by Jean Baptiste Camille Canclaux marched in from the west. In battles at Coron, Pont-Barré, Tiffauges, Montaigu and Saint-Fulgent,