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The insurgency of the Vendée

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The insurrection in the Vendée combined open warfare with the methods of petite guerre, ambushing French republican soldiers and cutting their supply lines to Paris. These tactics, when combined with the hatreds generated by a civil war, go far to explain to the cruelty of the conflict in the west and the depth of the hatreds it engendered. In republican eyes the use of guerrilla tactics was unjust and illegitimate, and they denounced their adversaries as common criminals and brigands, portraying them as backward, superstitious, even as subhuman, and in the process justified the savage repression they unleashed against them.

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  • Alan Forrest, 2014. "The insurgency of the Vendée," Small Wars and Insurgencies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 25(4), pages 800-813, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:fswixx:v:25:y:2014:i:4:p:800-813
    DOI: 10.1080/09592318.2013.832927
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