Everything about Battle Of Toulon 1707 totally explained
The
Battle of Toulon was fought from
1707-07-29 to
1707-08-21 at
Toulon,
France during the
War of the Spanish Succession. The forces of Austria, the Dutch Republic and Great Britain fought with the French, Spanish and Savoy forces. The French side won.
In 1707
Prince Eugene tried to take the French naval port of
Toulon. Eugene had crossed the
Var on July 11, and, although hampered by the negligence and inefficiency of
Victor Amadeus II of Savoy, had reached
Frejus, and was in touch with
Shovell and the British fleet, by the 16th. But the Duke's procrastination caused further delays, and gave time for the troops which
Berwick was sending home from Spain to reinforce Marshal
Tessé at Toulon before the arrival of the Allies (July 26).
On August 14, Tessé retook the crucial heights of Santa Catarina, which the Allies had stormed a week earlier; and Eugene, finding his retreat menaced and little chance of taking Toulon, had to abandon his attempt (August 22), and fall back across the Var, having lost 10,000 men in this ill-fated enterprise.
The campaign's only fruit was that, in order to prevent their ships falling into the enemy's hands, the French had sunk their whole squadron of more than 50 sail in the harbour, and thereby put it quite out of their power to contest the English control of the Mediterranean.
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