The fall of Toulon: the Royal Navy and the royalist last stand against the French Revolution

✍ Scribed by Ireland, Bernard

• Book ID: 100400009
• Publisher: George Weidenfeld & Nicholson;Orion Publishing Group Ltd; Phoenix
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 499 KB
• Edition: 2
• Category: Fiction
• City: Toulon (France);France;Toulon
• ISBN: 1780227515

✦ Synopsis

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 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 Bonaparte. The stage was set for tragedy.
Bernard Ireland's popular and accessible account of the fall of Toulon brings to life a savage episode in European history.

✦ Subjects

Military Fiction