Bonchamp, Charles, Marquis de, French general, born in Anjou, served in the American war; became one of the chiefs of the Vendéan army; fell at the battle of Cholet, and when dying, relented over the blood already shed; ordered the release of 5000 prisoners which his party, in their revenge, was about to massacre; (d. 1793).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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