Federalist revolts

For the Brazilian federalist revolts, see Federalist Revolution.
Federalist revolts
Part of the War of the First Coalition
Federalist revoltsWar in the VendéeSiege of LyonSiege of Toulon (1793)ChouannerieInvasion of France (1795)13 Vendémiaire
Federalist revolts

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Battles of the Vendée, Lyon, Toulon, Chouannerie, Quiberon and 13 Vendémiaire
Date2 June – 18 December 1793
Location
France
Result Victory of the Convention
Belligerents
National Convention

Fédéralistes

French Royalists
Arrest of the Girondins in the Convention on 2 June 1793
Arrest of the Girondins in the Convention on 2 June 1793

The Federalist revolts were uprisings that broke out in various parts of France in the summer of 1793, during the French Revolution. They were prompted by resentments in France's provincial cities about increasing centralisation of power in Paris, and increasing radicalisation of political authority in the hands of the Jacobins.[1] In most of the country, the trigger for uprising was the exclusion of the Girondins from the National Convention after the Insurrection of 31 May – 2 June 1793. Although they shared common origins and political objectives, the revolts were not centrally organised or well-coordinated.[2]: 177  The revolts were put down by the armies of the Convention over the following months. The Reign of Terror was then imposed across France to punish those associated with them and to enforce Jacobin ideology.[3]

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