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Royrand, Charles Aimé de

Charles Aimé de Royrand

Born

14 March 1726

Died

5 December 1793

The oldest of the Vendéan commanders, a retired battalion commander of nearly seventy who had served at Rocourt and in Guadeloupe, Royrand was fetched from his house by the peasants of his canton in March 1793 and recognised as general of the army of the Centre. He commanded against Marcé’s column on 19 March in the engagement long miscalled Pont-Charrault, the first significant republican defeat of the war, and afterwards drew up the regulations of the camp of L’Oie. Passed over as too old when d’Elbée was elected generalissimo in July, he kept his separate command and shared in the victories at Chantonnay, Torfou and Saint-Fulgent. He opposed the crossing of the Loire but led the vanguard, and was mortally wounded at Entrammes in October, dying in Anjou that December.

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