Invasion of France (1795)

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Invasion of France
Part of War of the First Coalition
Un épisode de l'affaire de Quiberon, by Paul-Emile Boutigny
Date 23 June - 21 July 1795 Location Quiberon Result Republican victory
Belligerents
Republican France	Chouans Émigrés Great Britain
Commanders
Lazare Hoche Jean Baptiste Canclaux Jean Humbert Emmanuel de Grouchy Jean-Lambert Tallien	Joseph de Puisaye Louis Charles d'Hervilly † Georges Cadoudal Charles de Sombreuil † Vincent de Tinténiac † Alexander Hood Bridport John Borlase Warren
Casualties and losses
	around 5000 dead and 6332 captured[1]
^ Of which 751 would be shot and around 2500 managed to escape.

The invasion of France in 1795 was a major landing on the Quiberon peninsula by émigré, counter-revolutionary troops in support of the Chouannerie and Vendée Revolt, beginning on 23 June and finally definitively repulsed on 21 July. It aimed to raise the whole of western France in revolt, bring an end to the French Revolution and restore the French monarchy. It had a major impact, dealing a disastrous blow to the royalist cause.

Louis XVIII and the comte d’Artois (the future Charles X of France) divided the counter-revolutionary activities and theatres between them - to Louis went political generalities and the region from the Alps to the Pyrénées (including Lyon), and to the comte au comte d’Artois the western provinces (Vendée, Brittany, Normandy). The comte named Joseph de Puisaye général en chef of Brittany, a good choice since de Puisaye had military talent and political and diplomatic experience.

Contents 1 Preparations 2 The expedition 2.1 Division of the royalists 2.2 Disembarkation 2.3 Republican counter-attack 2.4 Royalist reaction 2.5 The assault on Quiberon 3 Execution of the royalists 4 In literature 5 References 6 Source

[edit] Preparations

[edit] The expedition

[edit] Division of the royalists

[edit] Disembarkation

[edit] Republican counter-attack

[edit] Royalist reaction

[edit] The assault on Quiberon

[edit] Execution of the royalists

[edit] In literature

• One chapter of Mr Midshipman Hornblower (adapted for television as The Frogs And The Lobsters) was based on this landing

[edit] References

[edit] Source

• Abbé Angot, Quiberon, du 6 juin au 25 juillet 1795, in Revue historique et archéologique du Maine, t. XLI (1897), p. 335-347. [1]
• L'Affaire de Quiberon