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Part of French Revolutionary Wars

Siege of Toulon (1793)

August 29 – December 19, 1793 · Siege of Toulon (1793)

Result French Republican victory

Republican troops retook the royalist port of Toulon from an Anglo-Spanish occupation, with Bonaparte directing the artillery.

On the map Contemporaries

Coalition

France

Great Britain
Spain
Kingdom of Naples
Kingdom of Sardinia
Kingdom of Sicily
France
Federico Gravina military commander Sidney Smith military commander Henry Phipps, 1st Earl of Mulgrave military commander Juan de Lángara military commander Charles O'Hara military commander Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood military commander
Napoleon military commander Jacques François Dugommier military commander Jean François Carteaux military commander

Strength and losses

Strength
c. 18,000
Casualties
c. 4,000

Great Britain Casualties 700

Spain Casualties 1,200

Strength
c. 32,000
Casualties
c. 2,000
Guns
c. 100

Units

Hood's Mediterranean fleet (1793–1794)
French army besieging Toulon (1793)

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