At the edge of a sunken road in the bocage, a vendée chief standing sword in hand signals to his group of ten vendéans not to move, a republican soldier advances as a scout in front of a larger troop. This scene from the vendée war or the chouannerie does not refer to any specific event. Its only probable ambition is to show what the common fighters of this war could have been. On the one hand, republican soldiers evolving in a natural environment, the bocage, which they did not know and which remained all the more hostile to them as it lent itself admirably well to this type of combat which is the isolated ambush , guerrilla base; and on the other, peasants having an unequaled "knowledge" of this land, which they knew how to use to the best of their ability. Copyright of the notice: historial de la vendée.
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