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How Did a Young Artillery Captain Win the Siege of Toulon? - The Strategic Heights and the Recapture of Toulon | Sleepy Facts About History
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In late 1793, the French Republic faced a crisis when the vital Mediterranean naval arsenal at Toulon opened its gates to the British Royal Navy. Royalist rebels had handed the port to an Anglo-Spanish fleet, leaving the revolutionary government in Paris desperate to recover its southern coast. Out of the ensuing military siege emerged a twenty-four-year-old artillery captain named Napoleon Bonaparte, whose argument to seize the commanding heights overlooking the harbor transformed the…
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