Battle of Saint-Fulgent

Battle of Saint-Fulgent 1793

Belligerents

Commanders and leaders

Jean Mieszkowski

Units involved

Catholic and Royal Army

Army of the Coasts of La Rochelle

Strength

11,000

6,000

Casualties and losses

300

3,000

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 the Coasts of La Rochelle led by Jean Antoine Rossignol advanced into the Vendée from the south and east while the Army of the Coasts of Brest and the Army of Mainz under Jean Baptiste Camille Canclaux advanced from the west. In a series of battles at Coron, Pont-Barré, Tiffauges, Montaigu and Saint-Fulgent, the Royalist rebels concentrated against and defeated each Republican column in turn.