Buy this book on-line IRELND,BERNARD: : The Fall of Toulon: THE LAST OPPORTUNITY TO DEFEAT THE FRENCH REVOLUTIONLONDON.WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON,2005. ISBN 0297846124.
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In the summer of 1793 French Royalists surrendered the great naval base at Toulon to the British,intending this to be the springboard for a full-scale counter-revolution.A multi-national taskforce led by the British,and including Spanish,Austrian and Italian forces,landed in the city.But the Royalist's hopes were dashed: the Revolutionaries reacted with great speed and violence.
Instead of striking into France,the Royalists and their foreign allies were besieged in Toulon.Among the Republican forces was a young artillery officer who soon made a name for himself: Napoleon Buonaparte.The stage was set for an epic tragedy.
Five years later,Nelson won the historic Battle of the Nile,
ending Napoleon's ambitions in Egypt.His victory was utterly overwhelming in that almost every battleship in the French fleet was captured or sunk.
Yet these same ships had been in British hands during the occupation of Toulon.The story of how the allies captured and then contrived to lose an entire French battle squadron adds an element of farce to the grisly tale of the siege and fall of Toulon.
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