The Fall of Toulon: The Last Opportunity to Defeat the French Revolution
The Fall of Toulon: The Royal Navy and the Royalist Last Stand Against the French Revolution by Bernard Ireland
2005 | ISBN: 0304367265, 0297846124 | English | 320 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
2005 | ISBN: 0304367265, 0297846124 | English | 320 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
Bernard Ireland’s popular and accessible account of the fall of Toulon brings to life a savage episode in European history. 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. The story of Royalist dashed hopes, and the securing of the Revolution, is one of treason mixed with heroism, along with the rise of a young opportunist named Napoleon Bonaparte.