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Excerpt from Citizen Bonaparte, 1794-1815: The Story of a Peasant I Have told you all about our campaign in La Vendee, which the Vendeans themselves called the great war. We have exterminated the race of wretches on both sides of the Loire, but three-fourths of our men had left their bones there. All we have seen since was not in any degree so desperate. The remnant of Vendeans after the affair of Savenay had escaped into the marshes along the shore, where their last chief, the famous Charette, still held his ground. This adroit partisan would never fight a regular battle; he plundered all the farms and villages near the marshes, carrying off oxen, cows, hay, straw, and all he could lay his hands on. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.