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Hood and his British force withdraw to maintain their blockade of the coast, while the French republicans reoccupy the city. French royalists and other opponents of the revolution take over Toulon and invite Hood, whose fleet was blockading the city, to occupy the town
It is hoped that depriving the French revolutionaries of their maritime resources would cripple the revolution. Hood orders the French fleet burned to prevent them falling back into the hands of the revolutionaries, a task carried out by Captain Sidney Smith.
It was hoped that Toulon could be a centre of French resistance to Paris, and also to take possession of the French Mediterranean fleet of fifty eight warships, which lay in the harbour.
The allies, who did not work harmoniously together, are driven out, mainly by the generalship of Napoleon. Occupies Toulon on the invitation of the French royalists, in co-operation with the Spaniards and Sardinians.
Hood orders the French fleet burned to prevent them falling back into the hands of the revolutionaries, a task carried out by Captain Sidney Smith
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