The Chieftains of Vendee - Cathelineau, La Roche-Jacquelein, Charette, Stofflet, and Sombreuil #266994

N the month of March, 1793, the National I Convention ordered a levy of men. In many provinces there were at first some instances of disobedience in the West, where the tyranny of the Revolution had already been exercised in persecuting the priests who were dear to the people, the rising was general: it broke out at the same time in several districts of Anjou, Poitou,-and Brittany.