Battle of Luçon

Significance

The Battle of Luçon on 14 August 1793 was the third and decisive engagement in a sequence of Royalist attempts to seize the town of Luçon in the Vendée. Republican forces had repulsed an initial assault by around 5,000 insurgents on 15 July, then turned back a second attempt on 28 July. The final engagement saw Tuncq's 10,000 Republicans rout a Royalist force of some 30,000 under Charette's personal command, inflicting approximately 5,000 casualties. The repeated failure to take Luçon denied the Vendean insurgency a significant Republican-held position in the region. The scale of the losses in the third engagement represented a substantial blow to Royalist strength at a stage when the broader Vendée uprising was contending with increasingly organized Republican opposition.

Forces & casualties

Commanders (7)