Battle of Cholet

Infobox Military Conflict
conflict=Battle of Cholet
partof=the War in the Vendée
campaign=


caption=
date=17 October, 1793
place=Maine-et-Loire, France
result=French Republican victory
combatant1=First French Republic
combatant2=Vendéen Royalists
commander1=General Léchelle
commander2=Gigot d’Elbée
strength1=25,000
strength2=40,000
casualties1=4,000 killed or wounded
casualties2=ca 8,000 killed, wounded, or missing
12 cannons lost

The Battle of Cholet was fought on 17 October 1793 during the French Revolutionary Wars, between French Republican forces under General Léchelle and French Royalist Forces under Gigot d’Elbée. The battle was fought in the town of Cholet in the Maine-et-Loire department of France, and ended in a French Republican victory. Gigot d’Elbée was wounded and captured, he was executed by Republican troops in Noirmoutier. Royalist insurgent Marquis de Bonchamps was fatally wounded.

References

*Smith, D. "The Greenhill Napoleonic Wars Data Book". Greenhill Books, 1998.