Invasion of France (1795)

Invasion of France
	Part of the Federalist revolts during the War of the First Coalition
	; Un épisode de l'affaire de Quiberon, by Paul-Émile Boutigny
Date	23 June – 21 July 1795
Location	Quiberon, France
Result	French Republican victory
Belligerents
French Republic	French Royalists Chouans; Émigrés; Great Britain
Commanders and leaders
Lazare Hoche ; Jean Baptiste Canclaux	Joseph-Geneviève de Puisaye ; Louis Charles d'Hervilly (DOW) ; Georges Cadoudal ; Charles de Sombreuil ; Vincent de Tinténiac † ; Alexander Hood ; John Borlase Warren;
Strength
13,000 men	15,000 Chouans ; 5,437 émigrés ; 80 cannons ; 9 British warships ; 60 transports
Casualties and losses
Unknown	Around 5,000 dead and 6,332 captured
	Location within Europe

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. It aimed to raise the whole of western France in revolt, bring an end to the French Revolution and restore the French monarchy. The invasion failed; it had a major negative impact, dealing a disastrous blow to the royalist cause.

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