 The War of Vendée, a Royalist rebellion and counterrevolution led in Vendée, a department located at the southwest of Maine-et-Loire, reached the Loire in March 1793.The Royalist army soon crossed the river and progressed as far as Granville, in Normandy, in November.Pushed back, the Vendéens went back south and, to cross the Loire again, had to attack Angers.