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Foreign News
January 7, 1797
The Kentucky Gazette
Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky
What is this article about?
General Hoche accepts a subordinate command in La Vendee under Aubert Dubayet, despite his past victories over Brunswick and Wurmser, vowing to end the republican 'cholic' of the Vendee war, and he succeeds.
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Anecdote of General Hoche.
When this officer was going to the western departments, to serve as general of division, under Aubert Dubayet, a friend of his remarked it as a hardship, "that a man who had commanded two great armies, united, and who had conquered Brunswick and Wurmser, should take a subordinate command, and on a theatre of war so obscure as that of La Vendee." "I would go" replied the other, if they were to send me as a Corporal. I know that I shall finish this war, that will be my glory. No person hitherto has known the proper treatment of this malady. The war in La Vendee is the cholic of the republic, which I shall cure." He went and kept his word.
When this officer was going to the western departments, to serve as general of division, under Aubert Dubayet, a friend of his remarked it as a hardship, "that a man who had commanded two great armies, united, and who had conquered Brunswick and Wurmser, should take a subordinate command, and on a theatre of war so obscure as that of La Vendee." "I would go" replied the other, if they were to send me as a Corporal. I know that I shall finish this war, that will be my glory. No person hitherto has known the proper treatment of this malady. The war in La Vendee is the cholic of the republic, which I shall cure." He went and kept his word.
What sub-type of article is it?
Military Campaign
Rebellion Or Revolt
What keywords are associated?
General Hoche
La Vendee War
Aubert Dubayet
French Republic
Military Command
What entities or persons were involved?
General Hoche
Aubert Dubayet
Brunswick
Wurmser
Where did it happen?
La Vendee
Foreign News Details
Primary Location
La Vendee
Key Persons
General Hoche
Aubert Dubayet
Brunswick
Wurmser
Outcome
he went and kept his word, successfully ending the war.
Event Details
General Hoche, despite past commands of great armies and conquests over Brunswick and Wurmser, accepts a subordinate role under Aubert Dubayet in the obscure theatre of La Vendee. He remarks he would go even as a Corporal, confident he will finish the war, treating it as the 'cholic of the republic' which he will cure.