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Topic: Savenay, Battle of
Location: Thespiae Greece

Savenay, Battle of

Years: 1793 - 1793

The Battle of Savenay takes place on December 23, 1793, and marks the end of the Virée de Galerne operational phase of the first war in the Vendée after the French Revolution.

A Republican force of approximately eighteen thousand decisively defeats the Armée Catholique et Royale force of six thousand at Savenay.

“One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.”

― Golda Meir, My Life (1975)