{{Infobox military conflict | conflict = Battle of Chantonnay | image = | caption = | partof = the War in the Vendée | date = 5 September 1793 | place = Chantonnay, Vendée, France | result = Vendéean victory | combatant1 = {{flagicon|Kingdom of France}} French Royalists | combatant2 = {{flagicon|France}} Republican France | commander1 = {{flagicon|Kingdom of France}} Maurice d'Elbée<br>{{flagicon|Kingdom of France}} Charles de Bonchamps | commander2 = {{flagicon|France}} René Lecomte<br>{{flagicon|France}} François Marceau | strength1 = 25,000, 21 guns | strength2 = 7,500–8,000 | casualties1 = 500 | casualties2 = 4,000–5,000 casualties }} {{Campaignbox War in the Vendee}} {{Campaignbox First Coalition}} The '''Battle of Chantonnay''' (5 September 1793) saw Royalist and Republican French forces clash at Chantonnay during the War in the Vendée. In the wake of his victory at Luçon, Augustin Tuncq sent 7,000 Republican troops under René François Lecomte to occupy an exposed position at Chantonnay. Reacting to the threat, 25,000 Vendeans rebels with 21 cannons led by Maurice d'Elbée and Charles de Bonchamps attacked and crushed the Republicans in a four-hour struggle in which François Séverin Marceau-Desgraviers distinguished himself. Only 2,500 out of 7,500 Republicans escaped the disaster.
==References== *{{cite book|last=Johnson |first=Thomas George |title=Francois-Severin Marceau (1769–1796) |year=1896 |location=London |publisher=George Bell & Sons |access-date=25 June 2015 |url=https://archive.org/details/francoisseverinm00john }} *{{cite book|last=Smith|author-link=Digby Smith|first=Digby |year=1998 |title=The Napoleonic Wars Data Book |location=London |publisher=Greenhill |isbn=1-85367-276-9 }}
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