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Battle of Entrames

Coordinates: 47°59′48″N 0°42′45″W / 47.9967°N 0.7125°W / 47.9967; -0.7125
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Battle of Entrames
Part of the War in the Vendée

Wounded General Beaupuy
Date27 October 1793
Location
Result Royalist victory
Belligerents
France First French Republic Kingdom of France Vendée Royalist
Commanders and leaders
France Jean Léchelle
France Jean-Baptiste Kléber
France François Joseph Westermann
FranceMichel de Beaupuy (WIA)
Kingdom of France Marquis de la Roche-Jacquelin
Kingdom of France Charles Aimé de Royrand (DOW)
Strength
25,000 31,000
Casualties and losses
about 4,000 killed, wounded, or missing about 2,100 killed or wounded
Monument remembering the battle.

The Battle of Entrames was fought on 27 October 1793 during the French Revolutionary Wars. It pitted Republican forces against Vendée Royalists near Entrames in Mayenne, and it resulted in a Royalist victory.

References

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  • Johnson, Thomas George (1896). Francois-Severin Marceau (1769–1796). London: George Bell & Sons. Retrieved 25 June 2015.
  • Phipps, Ramsay Weston (2011). The Armies of the First French Republic: Volume III The Armies in the West 1793 to 1797 And, The Armies In The South 1793 to March 1796. Vol. 3. USA: Pickle Partners Publishing. ISBN 978-1-908692-26-9.
  • Smith, Digby (1998). The Napoleonic Wars Data Book. London: Greenhill. ISBN 1-85367-276-9.
  • "La biographie de Royrand, un écheveau a démeler". Vendée-Chouannerie Web Magazine. Retrieved 11 July 2015.

47°59′48″N 0°42′45″W / 47.9967°N 0.7125°W / 47.9967; -0.7125