Auray

Auray is a commune inside the Morbihan department in Brittany in northwestern France. The Battle of Auray on 29 September 1364 become the remaining battle of the Breton War of Succession. Kerblois, the location in Brech at which the defeated Charles de Blois turned into killed is marked by using a crucifix. In 1632, sailors departed from the port of Saint-Goustan to re-seize the town of Port Royal in Acadia on behalf of Cardinal Richelieu.

In 1795, after the failure of the Quiberon Expedition, a part of the royalist Chouannerie rise up, and the give up of the Armee des emigres ordered by using Sombreuil on 21 July, most prisoners were transferred to Auray. After a precis trial with the aid of a military fee made of citizens of the town, 750 people were shot and buried in a meadow in Brech on the western shore of the Loch. After a summary trial by an army fee made up of residents of the metropolis, 750 people were shot and buried in a meadow in Brech at the western shore of the Loch.