Battle of Cholet

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Part of the French Revolutionary War
Date 17 October 1793 Location Maine-et-Loire, France Result French Republican victory
Combatants
First French Republic	Vendéen Royalists
Commanders
General Léchelle	Gigot d’Elbée †
Strength
25,000	40,000
Casualties
4,000 killed or wounded	ca 8,000 killed, wounded, or missing 12 cannons lost

War of the First Coalition
Valmy – Jemappes – 1st Mainz – Neerwinden – Entrames – Toulon – Famars – Fontenay-le-Comte – Cholet – Luçon – Hondshoote – Wattignies – Truillas – Boulou – Tourcoing – Fleurus – Vosges – Tournay – Black Mountain – Lodi – Arcole – Genoa – Hyères – 2nd Mainz – Amberg – Rovereto – Bassano – Montenotte – Dego – Cape St Vincent – Santa Cruz  – Rivoli  – Camperdown

Revolts against the French Revolution
Fontenay-le-Comte – Haiti – Luçon – Cholet – Entrames – Toulon – Lyon – Avignon – Nimes – Marseille – Nancy

The Battle of Cholet was fought on 17 October 1793 during the French Revolutionary Wars, between French Republican forces under General Léchelle and French Royalist Forces under Gigot d’Elbée. The battle was fought in the town of Cholet in the Maine-et-Loire department of France, and ended in a French Republican victory. Gigot d’Elbée was killed in the battle and Royalist insurgent Marquis de Bonchamps was fatally wounded.

[edit] References

• Smith, D. The Greenhill Napoleonic Wars Data Book. Greenhill Books, 1998.