Battle of Saint-Fulgent

Battle of Saint-Fulgent
Part of the War in the Vendée

Battle of Saint-Fulgent 1793
Date22 September 1793
Location
Result Vendean victory
Belligerents
Kingdom of France French Royalists France Republican France
Commanders and leaders
Kingdom of France Henri de La Rochejaquelein France Jean Rossignol
France Jean Mieszkowski
Units involved
Kingdom of France Catholic and Royal Army France 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 and belonging to the Army of the Coasts of La Rochelle. Half of the Republican force was killed, wounded or captured, but rebel losses were only one tenth as many.

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 the 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.