Second Battle of Cholet

Second Battle of Cholet
Part of the War in the Vendée

La déroute de Cholet, by Jules Girardet
Date17 October 1793
Location
Result Republican victory
Belligerents
France French Republic Vendeans
Commanders and leaders
Jean Léchelle
Jean-Baptiste Kléber
François Séverin Marceau-Desgraviers
Michel de Beaupuy
Nicolas Haxo
Louis Vimeux
Marc Scherb
Antoine Bard
Alexis Chalbos
François Muller
François-Joseph Westermann
Maurice d'Elbée
Charles de Bonchamps  
Henri de La Rochejaquelein
Jean-Nicolas Stofflet
Charles de Royrand
Gaspard de Bernard de Marigny
François de Lyrot
• Piron de La Varenne
Strength
26,000 40,000
Casualties and losses
4,000 killed or wounded

ca 8,000 killed, wounded, or missing

12 cannons lost

The Second Battle of Cholet was fought on 17 October 1793 during the French Revolutionary Wars, between French Republican forces under General Jean Léchelle and French Royalist Forces under Maurice d'Elbée. The battle was fought in the town of Cholet in the Maine-et-Loire department of France, and resulted in a Republican victory. D’Elbée was wounded and captured; he was later executed by Republican troops in Noirmoutier. The Royalist insurgent, Charles Melchior Artus de Bonchamps, was fatally wounded in the battle.