War in the VENDÉE, 26 documents: Compensation for a theft at - Lot 89

War in the VENDÉE, 26 documents: Compensation for a theft at La Chataigneraie, 1793. Certificate for a four-horse team at Fontenay-le-Peuple (Year 5). Certificate of illness due to bivouacking in the Vendée (Year 6). Certificate of injury sustained while fighting bandits at the Battle of Pont Barré (Year 4). Military discharge from the Army of the West after being wounded at St. Fulgent, issued at St. Jean de Mont (Year 2). Certificate of civic service and service in the Army of the West (Year 2). Army of the West receipt for a supply of hay (Year 3). Law establishing aid for refugees from the rebellious western departments (Year 4). Engraved portrait of Charette (Restoration period). Circular prohibiting those granted amnesty from the western departments from traveling to Paris (Year 9). Certificate from the Commissioner of War in Niort, dated June 1793, for employees of the general staff stationed in Parthenay. Letter signed by the mayor of St. Florent near Niort ordering requisitions for 400 men in June 1793. Statement of expenses for the same purpose. Letter of credence, signed by General Salomon, Niort, July 1793. Certificate for one courier for public service since the beginning of the unrest in the Vendée, Niort, 1793. A bundle of twenty purchase orders, requisitions, and supply records from La Chataigneraie in 1793, signed by, among others, Mayor Dechêneaux, including items for the 6th Company of the Fraternity Battalion: nails, planks, salt, thread, candles.... Draft letter requesting a gendarme to deliver a dispatch for the army (Niort, Year 2). Draft letter requesting the payment of General Chalbos’s pay and that of two other officers, June 1793. Statement of expenses for fodder supplies and travel, Niort, June 1793. Discharge from the Army of the West issued at La Chataigneraie for one native of Fontenay-le-Peuple, Year 3, signed by a general. Account for the supply of firewood to the army troops quartered in Niort and its suburbs. Letter: “The Luçon Division under the command of General T. has, over the past three weeks, engaged in three skirmishes against bandits; in the first, there were 200 killed and a few prisoners, in the second, 2,000 were killed, many taken prisoner, and 7 cannons captured; and in the third, which is considered decisive, at least 6,000 were killed, a large number taken prisoner, a considerable number wounded, and 17 cannons captured. Our army is on the move at all these points, and on the 16th (August 1793), 4,000 men are set to take up quarters in our poor town of Fontenay"...signed Bertin. French Gazette, 17 Ventôse, Year 3: The peace treaty was signed by Charette, Stoflet, and Hoche; a long article on the Chouans; and finally, a short article on the looting of the Paris mail coach in Brest by the Chouans...