Second Battle of Châtillon
The Second Battle of Châtillon was fought between Royalist and First [French Republic|Republican French] forces at Châtillon-sur-Sèvre during the War in the Vendée. A 20,000-man Republican column commanded by Alexis Chalbos from the Army of the Coasts of La Rochelle was attacked and routed by Vendean Royalist forces led by Louis Marie [de Lescure] and Charles de Bonchamps. That night a few hundred Republicans under François [Joseph Westermann] raided the rebel encampment. Before the Vendeans killed or drove them off, the raiders inflicted severe losses on drunken rebel fighters and non-combatant women and children. The Vendeans withdrew toward Mortagne-sur-Sèvre the next day. Republican general René [François Lecomte] was mortally wounded in the battle, dying a few days later.