ID | 133514 |
Title Proper | Insurgency of the Vendée |
Language | ENG |
Author | Forrest, Alan |
Publication | 2014. |
Summary / Abstract (Note) | The insurrection in the Vendée combined open warfare with the methods of petite guerre, ambushing French republican soldiers and cutting their supply lines to Paris. These tactics, when combined with the hatreds generated by a civil war, go far to explain to the cruelty of the conflict in the west and the depth of the hatreds it engendered. In republican eyes the use of guerrilla tactics was unjust and illegitimate, and they denounced their adversaries as common criminals and brigands, portraying them as backward, superstitious, even as subhuman, and in the process justified the savage repression they unleashed against them. |
`In' analytical Note | Small Wars and Insurgencies Vol.25, No.4; Aug.2014: p.800-813 |
Journal Source | Small Wars and Insurgencies Vol.25, No.4; Aug.2014: p.800-813 |
Key Words | Open Warfare ; French Revolution ; Brigandage ; Guerrilla Warfare ; Civil War ; Ideology ; Just War ; Representations Enemy ; Propaganda ; Dehumanization ; Repression ; Small War ; Insurgency ; Guerrilla Tactics |