On 15 October 1793 Republican troops beat the Vendéen rebel army at La Tremblaye, near Cholet, and its general Lescure was badly wounded. On the same date in 1810 a Polish garrison at Sohail Castle, near Fuengirola in Spain, beat off an Anglo-Spanish landing and captured its commander, Lord Blayney. Each battle has its own full story below.
La Tremblaye, 1793
Republican troops marching from Mortagne toward Cholet met the Vendéen rebel army near the château of La Tremblaye. The rebel general Lescure was shot in the head while leading the vanguard, and the rebels fell back and abandoned Cholet. He died of the wound on 4 November 1793.1
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About 150 men of the Polish 4th Infantry Regiment held Sohail Castle near Fuengirola against an Anglo-Spanish landing under Lord Blayney. With a relief column and a few French dragoons they drove the attackers back to their boats and captured Blayney himself.2
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