July to join other Federalist units and volunteers coming from the Breton départements. In Caen, now the headquarters of the Federalist revolt in the West, Buzot, Guadet, Pétion, Barbaroux, Louvet, Salle, and other Girondins formed a central assembly for resistance to oppression, swearing hatred of anarchists and promising to maintain equality, unity, and the indivisibility of the Republic. They appointed General :fr:Georges Félix de Wimpffen, who had successfully defended Thionville against the Duke of Brunswick the year before, as commander of their departemental militias. Wimpffen gathered a Federalist army of 5,000 men, and placing Puisaye in command of the vanguard, marched off towards Évreux. Against them the Convention sent a small force of just 1,500 men, which engaged them on the evening of 13 July near Pacy-sur-Eure. The Federalist column, taken by surprise, broke and fled at the first sound of cannon - there were neither deaths nor injuries on either side. This encounter became known as the battle of Brécourt. Wimpffen was unable to rally his troops, who began deserting or defecting to the Convention. The Bretons decided to go home, taking with them the Girondin leaders from Caen. After this the Federalist revolt quickly dissipated in Normandy. On 29 July Gilbert Romme and Prieur de la Côte d'Or were freed unharmed and Caen opened its gates to the Convention army on 2 August, effectively bringing the revolt to an end there. The same day as the battle of Brécourt, Charlotte Corday, inspired by the Federalists in Caen, assassinated Marat in Paris. Despite the intensity of the feeling stirred up by his death and Corday's execution soon after, the Convention did not impose punishments on Normandy as it later did on Lyon and Marseille. Romme and Prieur de la Côte d'Or ensured that the local clubs were not suppressed; indeed, during the reign of terror there were no executions at all in Caen. The loss of the Jacobin hero was however commemorated in Normandy on 19 November, when the city of Le Havre-de-Grâce changed its name to Le Havre-de-Marat (later, Le Havre-Marat). In Brittany, the fleeing Girondin leaders arrived at Quimper on 8 August but found little support for their insurrection, even among a peasantry with strong monarchist tendencies and a hatred of the levée en masse. St Malo prepared to defect to the British as Toulon had done, but Convention forces were able to take control quickly and