Lieutenant-general Jacques Alexis de Verteuil is among…

Lieutenant-general Jacques Alexis de Verteuil is among those executed by the Republicans the day after the Battle of Savenay.

General Westermann reports to his political masters at the Convention: "The Vendée is no more ... According to your orders, I have trampled their children beneath our horses' feet; I have massacred their women, so they will no longer give birth to brigands. I do not have a single prisoner to reproach me. I have exterminated them all." (Mark Levene; The Rise of the West and the Coming of Genocide. Volume II: Genocide in the Age of the Nation State. I.B. Tauris, London - New York, 2005. Chapter 3: The Vendée – A Paradigm Shift? ; page 104. Retrieved November 17, 2017.)

Such killing of civilians would have been an explicit violation of the Convention's orders to Westermann.

Several thousand living Vendéan prisoners are being held by Westerman's forces however, when the letter is supposedly written.