Siege of Angers

Name: Siege of Angers
Start: 1793

1793 CE.

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The siege of Angers was a siege of the French town of Angers on 3 December 1793 in the War in the Vendée. Among the combatants was Françoise Després, a loyal monarchist and Catholic who disguised herself as a man to serve in the Bourbon army.

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