Jean-Baptiste Carrier (16 March 1756 – 16 December 1794) was a French Revolutionary and politician most notable for his actions in the War in the Vendée during the Reign of Terror. While under orders to suppres a Royalist counter-revolution, he commanded the execution of 4,000 civilians, mostly priests, women and children in Nantes, some by drowning in the Loire River which Carrier described as "the National Bathtub." After the fall of the Robespierre government, Carrier was tried for war crimes by the Revolutionary Tribunal, found guilty and executed.