Louis Marie Turreau

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Louis Marie Turreau was a French Revolutionary general notorious for leading the brutal "infernal columns" campaign that devastated the Vendée region during the War in the Vendée.

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Louis Marie Turreau canonical 6

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Predicate Object
instanceOf French Revolutionary military personnel
French general
human
allegiance French First Republic
appointedBy Napoleon Bonaparte
countryOfCitizenship French First Republic
Kingdom of France
dateOfBirth 1756-07-04
dateOfDeath 1816-12-10
endTime 1794-05-13
1811
era First French Empire
French Revolution
ethnicGroup French people
familyName Turreau
givenName Louis
hasActivity counter-insurgency operations in the Vendée
hasCauseOfDeath natural causes
ideology republicanism
languageSpokenWrittenOrSigned French
militaryBranch French Revolutionary Army
militaryRank general
name Louis Marie Turreau
nobleTitle baron of the First French Empire
notableFor War in the Vendée
linked to: Vendée uprising

command of the infernal columns
notableWork memoirs about the War in the Vendée
occupation diplomat
soldier
ordered infernal columns campaign in the Vendée
participatedIn French Revolutionary Wars
War in the Vendée
linked to: Vendée uprising
placeOfBirth Kingdom of France
Normandy
Évreux
linked to: Evreux
placeOfDeath Conches-en-Ouche
Eure
France
positionHeld French ambassador to the United States
commander of the Army of the West
regionOfActivity Vendée
western France
sexOrGender male
startTime 1794-01-17
1804

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Vendée uprising opponentCommander Louis Marie Turreau
Battle of Cholet (1793) commander Louis Marie Turreau
Battle of Le Mans (1793) commander Louis Marie Turreau
Battle of Savenay (1793) commander Louis Marie Turreau
Virée de Galerne opposedBy Louis Marie Turreau
Louis Marie Turreau name Louis Marie Turreau