Very timely post, being just two days away from the anniversary of the battle of Waterloo. Some hold that Napoleon might have won that battle if only he had another 10,000 troops. But wait, even as he massed his armies against the Allies, he felt obliged to divert somewhere between 10,000-25,000 of his best troops (the Army of the West - Armée de l’Ouest - under General Lamarque) to the Vendée to suppress the populace.
(The Battle of Rocheserviere between the Vendeans and Lamarque took place on 20 June, two days after Napoleons defeat at Waterloo, at the time news had not reached either party.)
Amazing! I had never heard of this.
That history got well buried.