Invasion of France (1795)

Invasion of France
Part of the Federalist revolts during the War of the First Coalition

Un épisode de l'affaire de Quiberon, by Paul-Émile Boutigny
Date23 June – 21 July 1795
Location
Quiberon, France
Result French Republican victory
Belligerents
France French Republic

Kingdom of France French Royalists

 Great Britain
Commanders and leaders
France Lazare Hoche
France Jean Baptiste Canclaux
Kingdom of France Joseph-Geneviève de Puisaye
Kingdom of France Louis Charles d'Hervilly (DOW)
Kingdom of France Georges Cadoudal
Kingdom of France Charles de Sombreuil Executed
Kingdom of France Vincent de Tinténiac 
Kingdom of Great Britain Alexander Hood
Kingdom of Great Britain John Borlase Warren
Strength
13,000 men 15,000 Chouans
5,437 émigrés
80 cannons
9 British warships
60 transports
Casualties and losses
Unknown Around 5,000 dead and 6,332 captured[1]

The invasion of France in 1795 or the Battle of Quiberon was a major landing on the Quiberon peninsula by émigré, counter-revolutionary troops in support of the Chouannerie and Vendée Revolt, beginning on 23 June and finally definitively repulsed on 21 July. It aimed to raise the whole of western France in revolt, bring an end to the French Revolution and restore the French monarchy. The invasion failed; it had a major negative impact, dealing a disastrous blow to the royalist cause.

  1. ^ Of which 751 would be shot and around 2,500 managed to escape.

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