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No Surrender: The Revolt in La Vendee

by G.A. Henty

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Leigh Stansfield, an English lad, finds himself drawn into the conflict following the French Revolution. The revolt of the Vendee army against tyranny is ruthlessly crushed, but they never surrender. Setting: 1795

The Vendee region of the French Province of Poitou erupted in revolt after the exacting of military levees and attempted destruction of the church by the Revolution. Led by their local priests and other community leaders, the army of Vendee defeated all the forces of the Republic that were thrown at them for eighteen months.

The very cause of their success--large peasant armies operating on home territory proved their undoing when the farmers went home and the organized military might of the new government was unleashed on the region. The Great Terror came to the Vendee and more than forty thousand men, women, and children were butchered by the "Peoples' Army," their crops burned, the towns and homes razed, and churches destroyed.

The hero of the tale is Leigh Stansfield, an English lad drawn into the Vendee conflict while visiting his sister who is married to a French sea-captain. He forms a company of scouts for the Vendean army and they fight with desperate valor many times over. Leigh's sister is condemned to the guillotine and he risks his own neck, traveling in disguise, to rescue her. The army is less and less successful and, as the revolt is ruthlessly crushed, the young Englishman escapes to England. The Vendee never surrendered.

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Binding: Hardcover
Page Count: 296
Publisher: Preston Speed
ISBN: 1931-587-043