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==Chronology of the Camisards== ===1701=== * June: the [[Vallérargues]] affair, when people seized back captured prophets from priests.<ref name=".net"/> ===1702=== * 24 July: assassination of François Langlade, Abbé du Chayla, two priests and Catholic family at Dévèze. * 12 August: Execution of [[:fr:Esprit Séguier|Esprit Séguier]]. Traditional start of the War. * 11 September: Battle at [[Champdomergue]], a hill near ([[Le Collet-de-Dèze]]) with no clear outcome. * 22 October: Battle at [[Saint-Laurent-de-Trèves|Témélac]]. Gédéon Laporte killed and his head displayed at [[Barre-des-Cévennes]], [[Anduze]], Saint-Hippolyte and [[Montpellier]]. * 24 December: Jean Cavalier took the 700 strong garrison town of [[Alès]]. He led 70 Camisards. * 28 December: The Camisards took [[Sauve, Gard|Sauve]].<ref name=".net"/><ref name="Progress">{{cite web|last1=Bersier|first1=Eugène|title=The progress of the war 1702-1704|url=http://www.museeprotestant.org/en/notice/the-progress-of-the-war-1702-1704/?parc=21739|website=Virtual Museum of Protestantism|publisher=Fondation pasteur Eugène Bersier|access-date=30 August 2016}}</ref> ===1703=== * 12 January: Jean Cavalier took [[Val de Barre]] ([[Nîmes]]) from royalist [[Victor-Maurice, comte de Broglie|Count de Broglie]]. * February: Count de Broglie relieved of his duties and replaced by [[Nicolas Auguste de La Baume|Field-Marshal de Montrevel]]. More troops deployed. * 26 February: The Camisards under Castenet massacred the inhabitants of [[Fraissinet-de-Fourques]]. * 6 March: [[:fr:Pompignan (Gard)#Épisode de la guerre des Camisards|Battle of Pompignan]] – the Camisards lost. * 1 April: The royalist [[:fr:Massacre du moulin de l'Agau|Moulin de l'Agau]] massacre. * April: the deportation of [[Mialet, Gard|Mialet]] and [[Saumane, Gard|Saumane]] to [[Perpignan]] in [[Roussillon]]. * 29 April: Jean Cavalier defeated at [[:fr:Bataille de la tour de Billot|Tour de Billot]] (Alès). * 18 May: Battle of Bruyès. * 12 September: massacre of Catholics at [[Potelières]]. * 20 September: massacre of Catholics at [[Saturargues]] (Lunel) and [[Saint-Sériès]] . * Autumn: The Burning of the Cévennes policy-villagers were deported from 466 villages which were then torched. * Autumn: emergence of the Catholic Cadets of the Cross (White Camisards) who looted and pillaged. * 20 December: Battle of the Madeleines ([[Tornac]]).<ref name=".net"/><ref name="Progress"/> ===1704=== [[File:Martignargues monument des camisards combats du Devés.jpg|thumb|upright|Monument at Devès de Martignargues]] *15 March: the battle of [[:fr:Martignargues#Époque moderne|Devès de Martignargues]] ([[Vézénobres]]). Jean Cavalier defeated a Catholic regiment *March: Field-marshal de Montrevel was relieved of his duties and replaced by [[Claude Louis Hector de Villars|Field-marshal de Villars]]. *16 April: de Montrevel defeated Cavalier at the Battle of [[Nages]] (while waiting for de Villars arrival) *19 April: Cavalier's stores discovered in caves at [[Euzet]] *20 April: de Villars assumes command and suggests negotiation *May: negotiations start, Cavalier accepts unconditional surrender and a command in the royal army *13 August: Pierre Laporte (Rolland) dies at [[Castelnau-Valence|Castelnau-les-Valence]] *October: Other leaders leave France.<ref name=".net"/><ref name="Progress"/>
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