Short answers, pulled from the story.
On the 5th of October 1795, Republican forces under Napoleon Bonaparte defeated a Royalist army of 25,000 men with only 5,000 troops. The engagement ended after two hours when cannons fired grapeshot into massed Royalist ranks, leaving around three hundred dead on the streets of Paris.
Napoleon Bonaparte commanded the Republican forces during the 13 Vendémiaire battle on the 5th of October 1795. He ordered Joachim Murat to retrieve 40 cannons from the plain of Sablons and arranged them for effective fields of fire against the advancing Royalists.
The 13 Vendémiaire battle occurred on the 5th of October 1795, which corresponds to the date 13 Vendémiaire in the revolutionary calendar. The fighting began at 5 am with a major Royalist assault that was repulsed by Republican artillery.
Following the victory at the 13 Vendémiaire battle, Napoleon became a national hero and was quickly promoted to Général de Division. Within five months he received command of the French army conducting operations in Italy after being appointed General in Chief of the Army of the Interior.
Around three hundred Royalists lay dead on the streets of Paris following the close of the 13 Vendémiaire battle. The grapeshot and volleys from Patriot forces caused the Royalist attack to waver before Murat's squadron closed out the fighting.