The whole Vendean army was either left upon the battlefield or vanished in smoke.
For three years, Georges had performed prodigies of valor, strength and dexterity; he now crossed the Loire and re-entered Morbihan with only one man left of all who had followed him.
That man became his aide-de-camp, or rather his brother-in-arms.
He never left him, and in memory of the hard campaign they had made together he changed his name from Lemercier to Tiffauges.

We have seen him at the ball of the Victims charged with a message to Morgan.
As soon as Cadoudal returned to his own part of the country, he fomented insurrection on his own responsibility.

Bullets respected that big round head, and the big round head justified Stofflet's prediction.

He succeeded La Rochejacquelin, d'Elbee, Bonchamp, Lescure, even Stofflet himself, and became their rival for fame, their superior in power; for it happened (and this will give an idea of his strength) that Cadoudal, almost single-handed, had been able to resist the government of Bonaparte, who had been First Consul for the last three months.

The two leaders who continued with him, faithful to the Bourbon dynasty, were Frotte and Bourmont.
At the time of which we are now speaking, that is to say, the 26th of January, 1800, Cadoudal commanded three or four thousand men with whom he was preparing to blockade General Hatry in Vannes.
During the time that he awaited the First Consul's answer to the letter of Louis XVIII.