Virée de Galerne

Infobox Military Conflict


caption = "Le Général Lescure blessé passe la Loire à Saint-Florent"
date = From 18 October to 23 December 1793
place= Maine, Britanny, Normandy
result= Decisive Republican victory
combatant1 =
combatant2 =
strength1 = Armée de l'Ouest
~ 10,0000 men (?)
strength2 = 60,000 to 10,000 people of which: 20,000-30,000 Vendéens 6,000-10,000 Chouans 30,000-60,000 non-combatants (old people, wounded, women and children)
casualties1= ~ 30000 dead (?)
casualties2= 50000-70000 dead
commanders1= Kléber Westermann Marceau Léchelle † Bouin de Marigny † Beaupuy
Rossignol
Thévenet
Canuel
commanders2=La Rochejacquelein
Stofflet
Talmont †
Lescure †
Fleuriot
Bernard de Marigny
Lyrot †
Royrand † The Virée de Galerne was a military campaign of the War in the Vendée during the French Revolutionary Wars across the county of Maine, Britanny and Normandy. It takes its name from "gwalarn", a Breton word for the "vent de noroît" (northwest wind).