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3.33- The Geography of Terror

Revolutions

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The Catholic and Royal Army of the Revolutionary War

In july, they were allowed to walk away free, though on the condition that they did not rejoin the war. As a coherent and experienced fighting force, the minz garrison guys immediately became the best unit the republicans had. On september nineteenth, they massed forty thousand outside tifoge after the rebels launched an attack to retake the city. But despite the numbers, the rebel generals knew that they were super short on ammunition and had no artillery on hand at all. So they withdrew to the north. And pretty soon the call was going out among the rebels to retreat north to the loire riverh marke the northern boundary of the vade.

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