
Fall of Toulon
The tragic story of the last Royalist attempt to overthrow the French revolution
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 Royalists'' hopes wer...
The tragic story of the last Royalist attempt to overthrow the French revolution
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 Royalists'' hopes wer...