The battle was part of the attempts by the Paris Commune to seize Versailles, the seat of Adolphe Thiers’ government, and it ended in a defeat for the Federates.

There were also no reserves, supplies, and they only had eight cannons to fire, while Paris housed hundreds of artillery pieces and several years of ammunition.

[1] The Versailles defense of Meudon was entrusted to a corps of gendarmes numbering about a thousand men entrenched in the town's castle.

Running out of ammunition, they were eventually chased away by the Federates and retreated to the rest of the village and the old Prussian batteries.

Eudes then ordered a retreat which ended at Fort d'Issy where Ranvier had returned to install artillery.