The First Battle of the War in the Vade

The convention hastily mustered as many troops as they could find to pour into the region. The first real battle of the war was fought down near the lay river on march nineteenth, when two thousand republican soldiers moving north were attacked by a few thousand peasants. It would not be until after the purge of the gerondens that robespierre would take his place and help orm the committee of public safety into the jacobin instrument of terror that we know and love to day.