Second Battle of Cholet

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Second Battle of Cholet
Part of the War in the Vendée
La déroute de Cholet, by Jules Girardet
Date 17 October 1793 Location Maine-et-Loire, France Result Republican victory
Belligerents
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.