Original sentence: When the campaign dragged to an end in March 1796, the estimated dead, both Republican and Royalist, numbered between 117,000 and 500,000, out of a population of around 800,000
Edited sentence: A massacre of 6,000 Vendée prisoners, many of them women, took place after the battle of Savenay, along with the drowning of 3,000 Vendée women at Pont-au-Baux and 5,000 Vendée priests, old men, women, and children killed by drowning at the Loire River at Nantes in what was called the "national bath" - tied in groups in barges and then sunk into the Loire.It is considered by some to be the first modern genocide, and only recently understood as such.There were many reported atrocities and a campaign of mass killing universally targeted at residents of the Vendée regardless of combantant status, political affiliation, age or gender.When the campaign dragged to an end in March 1796, the estimated dead numbered between 117,000 and 500,000, out of a population of around 800,000.With these massacres came formal orders for forced evacuation; also, a 'scorched earth' policy was initiated: farms were destroyed, crops and forests burned and villages razed