Editing Lazare Hoche (section)

===War in the Vendée and Chouannerie===
Shortly after his release, Hoche was given the command of the [[Army of the Coasts of Cherbourg]] with the mission of suppressing the Royalist [[Revolt in the Vendée]].<ref name=Charavay/> He set up his headquarters at [[Rennes]], [[Brittany]], and put his initial effort into reorganizing the troops.<ref name=Charavay/> In addition, he received the command of the [[Army of the Coasts of Brest]] in November 1794.<ref name=Charavay/> Hoche completed the work of his predecessors in a few months by the [[Treaty of La Jaunaye]] (15 February 1795), but soon afterwards the war was renewed by the rebel leadership.<ref name=Charavay/><ref name=EB1911/>

[[File:Hoche à Quiberon.jpg|thumb|right|Hoche at the Battle of Quiberon, by [[Charles Porion]] (1879)]]

Between June and July 1795, Hoche led the defense against the [[Invasion of France (1795)|Quiberon Expedition]] by [[Armée des Émigrés|Royalist émigrés]] assisted by the British [[Royal Navy]], which he decisively defeated at [[Saint-Pierre-Quiberon|Fort Penthièvre]] on 21 July.<ref name=Charavay/><ref name=EB1911/> In late August, he was appointed commander of the [[Army of the West (France)|Army of the West]] with the order to "act offensively against [[François de Charette|Charette]]'s army". In December 1795, when the three armies previously under his command (Armies of the West, of the Coasts of Brest and of the Coasts of Cherbourg) merged to form the new [[Army of the Coasts of the Ocean (1796)|Army of the Coasts of the Ocean]], Hoche became the supreme commander of all Republican forces in Western France.<ref name=Charavay/>

Thereafter, by means of mobile columns (which he kept under good discipline), he gradually eliminated the [[Catholic and Royal Army|Catholic and Royal Armies]].<ref name=Charavay/><ref name=EB1911/> Hoche directed the operations that led to the capture (and subsequent execution) of rebel leaders [[Jean-Nicolas Stofflet]] (24 February 1796) and François de Charette (23 March), bringing an end to the War in the Vendée.<ref name=Charavay/> With the surrender of the leaders of the [[Chouannerie]], in May and June 1796, Hoche concluded the pacification of Western France, which had for more than three years been the scene of civil war.<ref name=Charavay/><ref name=EB1911/>