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    13 Vendémiaire, Year 4 in the French Republican Calendar (5 October 1795 in the Gregorian calendar), is the name given to a battle between the French Revolutionary...
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    siege of Toulon in 1793 and defeating royalist insurgents in Paris on 13 Vendémiaire in 1795. In 1796, Napoleon commanded a military campaign against the...
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    distinguished himself under the command of General Napoleon Bonaparte on 13 Vendémiaire (1795), when he seized a group of large cannons and was instrumental...
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    calendar. The month was named after the Occitan word vendemiaire 'grape harvester'. Vendémiaire was the first month of the autumn quarter (mois d'automne)...
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    in 2015 Munitions at Fort McAllister, showing a grapeshot projectile 13 Vendémiaire famous use of grapeshot Beehive anti-personnel round Chain-shot—a shot...
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    began to pose a threat. After the "whiff of grapeshot" in the crisis of 13 Vendémiaire, in October 1795, they ceased to be a significant factor in Parisian...
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    provisions designed to protect the current holders of power. On 5 October (13 Vendémiaire), a revolt led by Royalists challenged the convention. It was put down...
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    Rhône valley and southern Brittany. However, a royalist coup d'état on 13 Vendémiaire (5 October 1795) was crushed by general Napoleon Bonaparte. With the...
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  • employing artillery, Napoleon suppresses the royalist insurrection on 13 Vendémiaire in 1795. Napoleon woos aristocratic widow Joséphine de Beauharnais and...
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    terrorists and an appeal to sans-culottes was issued. During the nights of Vendémiaire 12–13 (October 4–5), General Jacques-François Menou was tasked with putting...
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