Armée des côtes de Brest
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The Army of the Coasts of Brest
was a French Revolutionary Army
formed on 1 April 1793 by splitting the Army of the Coasts into this army and the Army of the Coasts of Cherbourg. It was put under the command of Jean Baptiste Camille de Canclaux and charged with combatting the Chouans and protecting the coasts of Brittany
against a British invasion (repulsing the Quiberon landing
). Canclaux was removed from his post on 1 October that same year and replaced with Alexandre Dumas, who asked to be relieved of his command due to the War in the Vendee. He was replaced by Jean Léchelle
and then in August 1794 by Lazare Hoche
.
Brest, France
Brest is a city in the Finistère department in Brittany in northwestern France. Located in a sheltered position not far from the western tip of the Breton peninsula, and the western extremity of metropolitan France, Brest is an important harbour and the second French military port after Toulon...
was a French Revolutionary Army
French Revolutionary Army
The French Revolutionary Army is the term used to refer to the military of France during the period between the fall of the ancien regime under Louis XVI in 1792 and the formation of the First French Empire under Napoleon Bonaparte in 1804. These armies were characterised by their revolutionary...
formed on 1 April 1793 by splitting the Army of the Coasts into this army and the Army of the Coasts of Cherbourg. It was put under the command of Jean Baptiste Camille de Canclaux and charged with combatting the Chouans and protecting the coasts of Brittany
Brittany
Brittany is a cultural and administrative region in the north-west of France. Previously a kingdom and then a duchy, Brittany was united to the Kingdom of France in 1532 as a province. Brittany has also been referred to as Less, Lesser or Little Britain...
against a British invasion (repulsing the Quiberon landing
Invasion of France (1795)
The invasion of France in 1795 or the Battle of Quiberon was a major landing on the Quiberon peninsula by émigré, counter-revolutionary troops in support of the Chouannerie and Vendée Revolt, beginning on 23 June and finally definitively repulsed on 21 July...
). Canclaux was removed from his post on 1 October that same year and replaced with Alexandre Dumas, who asked to be relieved of his command due to the War in the Vendee. He was replaced by Jean Léchelle
Jean Léchelle
Jean Léchelle was a French general of the French Revolutionary Wars.-Life:He was master of arms at Saintes when the French Revolution broke out and, enrolling in the National Guard of Charente-Inférieure, served in 1791 as lieutenant-colonel of the first volunteers' battalion from Charente.On 17...
and then in August 1794 by Lazare Hoche
Lazare Hoche
Louis Lazare Hoche was a French soldier who rose to be general of the Revolutionary army.Born of poor parents near Versailles, he enlisted at sixteen as a private soldier in the Gardes Françaises...
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