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    An Epic History TV / History Marche collaboration, supported by our sponsor, Osprey Publishing.

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    In the summer of 1793, the French Revolution was entering its fourth year, and France was

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    on the verge of anarchy.

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    In Paris, political extremists had seized control of the Revolution.

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    They'd guillotined the king...

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    and imposed a Reign of Terror that dealt summary justice to all suspected enemies of the Revolution.

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    Hoping to unify the new republic, France' leaders had declared war on the Habsburg Empire.

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    But the conflict quickly widened, and soon France was facing the combined might of Europe's

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    leading powers, determined to stamp out her dangerous political experiment.

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    Meanwhile, whole regions of France had come out in open revolt, horrified by the new extremism

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    of the Revolution.

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    In August, the Republic suffered a further, potentially fatal, blow, when the city of

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    Toulon joined the revolt.

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    Toulon was France's largest and most important naval base in the south, home to a third of

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    the entire French navy.

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    But now rebels welcomed their old enemy, the British Royal Navy, into the port, led by

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    Admiral Lord Hood aboard HMS Victory.

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    It was an extraordinary coup – without a shot being fired, the Allies had crippled

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    French naval power in the Mediterranean, and gained a vital toehold on the French coast.

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    All French forces in the area were immediately diverted to face this new threat, and lay

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    siege to the rebel port...

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    19,000 troops in all - but since most French officers had been aristocrats, who were now

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    fleeing the Revolution in large numbers, they were seriously short of professional leadership.

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    Their commander, General Jean-Francois Carteaux, was a loyal Republican, but a court painter

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    by trade, with no military training.

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    To make matters worse, one of his few professional officers, his artillery commander Colonel

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    Donmartin, had been badly wounded on the approach to Toulon.

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    Antoine Saliceti, a Corsican deputy of the National Convention in Paris, recommended

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    as his replacement a fellow countryman... a 24-year-old artillery officer who was passing

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    Toulon en route to the front, named Napoleone Buonaparte, or Bonaparte.

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    Bonaparte was a professional soldier, but he'd seen almost no active service.

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    Nevertheless, Saliceti was impressed by his manner, and most of all, his politics – Bonaparte

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    had just written a political pamphlet: a short story about a young artillery officer, who

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    berates his fellow diners for their disloyalty to the Republic.

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    General Carteaux thought it wise to accept Deputy Saliceti's recommendation.

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    The great port of Toulon was well defended by city walls and a dozen outlying forts and

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    redoubts.

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    They were held by 2,000 British soldiers and sailors, 6,000 Spanish troops, 6,000 Neapolitans,

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    and 800 Sardinians.

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    Artillery would be the key to overcoming these formidable defences.

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    But when Bonaparte was put in command of the artillery on 16th September, he found himself

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    with few cannon, not enough trained gun-crews, and a shortage of gunpowder and shot.

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    With relentless energy and determination, Bonaparte transformed the situation, requisitioning

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    unused guns, training infantrymen to work them, setting up a new forge and workshop,

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    and arranging transport from Marseilles of 100,000 sandbags, for constructing new batteries.

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    Through hard work, he was ultimately able to build his force up to 64 officers and fifteen

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    hundred men, manning 100 cannon, howitzers and mortars.

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    Within days Bonaparte had established two new forward batteries, with good revolutionary

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    names – La Montagne and Sans-Culottes – which brought Toulon's inner harbour within range,

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    and forced Admiral Hood to move all his ships closer to the port.

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    Bonaparte also came up with a plan – one that would allow the French to bypass most

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    of Toulon's defences, and secure the rapid victory the Republic so desperately needed.

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    Bonaparte argued that if Fort L'Eguilette could be captured, which looked out across

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    the harbour, he could fill it with heavy guns, and shell the British and Spanish fleet at

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    anchor.

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    Admiral Hood would be forced to abandon the port, and take with him the Allied soldiers

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    that Toulon relied on for its defence.

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    General Carteaux saw the merits of Bonaparte's plan, and on 22nd September, French forces

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    attacked Mont Caire.

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    But to Bonaparte's exasperation, while he'd argued for an attack by 3,000 men, the indecisive

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    Carteux committed only 400.

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    Not only was the attack easily repulsed, but it alerted the Allies to the danger: within

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    48 hours, they'd reinforced Mont Caire with thousands more troops, and built a new fort,

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    named Fort Mulgrave, bristling with 20 cannon.

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    The position was now so strong the French nicknamed it, 'Little Gibraltar'.

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    Finally, in mid-November, an experienced, professional soldier arrived to take command

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    of French forces, General Dugommier.

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    He saw at once that Bonaparte's plan was the only way to take Toulon, and gave it his full

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    backing.

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    Bonaparte, promoted to Major, got to work, overseeing construction of several more batteries

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    in preparation for the decisive assault.

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    One forward battery was so exposed to enemy fire that men refused to be sent there.

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    So Bonaparte renamed it 'La Batterie des Hommes sans Peur' – the Battery of Men Without

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    Fear... and suddenly, there was no shortage of volunteers.

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    It was an early display of Napoleon's genius for inspiring his soldiers - one that would

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    serve him well in the years ahead.

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    On 30th November, the Allied land forces commander, British General Charles O'Hara, tried to seize

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    back the initiative, leading an assault on the new French batteries facing Fort Malbousquet.

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    At first, the attack was successful: the batteries were overrun and the French guns spiked, but

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    a counterattack, with much greater numbers, and led in person by General Dugommier and

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    Major Bonaparte, drove back the Allies.

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    General O'Hara himself was shot through the hand and captured.

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    Twelve years before, he'd surrendered to George Washington at Yorktown, during the American

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    War of Independence.

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    Now he got to surrender to Napoleon Bonaparte.

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    In the early hours of 18th December, in howling wind and driving rain, the French launched

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    a major assault on Fort Mulgrave.

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    The wet conditions made muskets useless, except as clubs, or with bayonets.

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    Bonaparte led the second wave in person.

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    Amid fierce hand-to-hand fighting, his horse was killed under him, and he was bayonetted

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    in the thigh by a British sergeant – a wound that came within inches of ending his life

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    and radically changing the course of history.

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    Finally the Allied garrison was overwhelmed, and Mulgrave fell to the French.

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    Fort L'Eguilette and Tour de la Balaquier were soon also in French hands...

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    By the following afternoon, the French had 10 heavy guns in L'Eguilette, placing the

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    Allied ships within range.

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    Admiral Hood could not expose his valuable ships-of-the-line to such a threat.

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    He had no option but to order an immediate evacuation of the fleet and garrison from

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    Toulon.

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    Small Spanish and British teams raced to destroy all the French ships and naval stores that

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    they couldn't take with them.

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    But amid the chaos of their departure, 18 ships-of-the line were allowed to fall back

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    into French hands – a badly missed opportunity.

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    Many French citizens of Toulon were desperate to escape aboard the Allied ships, knowing

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    that the Republicans would inflict terrible reprisals on the city.

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    British and Spanish ships took as many as they could, about 14,000 in all – but scores

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    were drowned amid chaotic and desperate scenes.

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    Others were left to face the wrath of the Revolution...

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    Republican troops entered the city the next morning, and executions and firing squads

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    began almost immediately.

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    For the next two weeks, about 200 were executed every day.

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    Allied propaganda later blamed Bonaparte for the atrocities, but there's no evidence he

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    was directly involved.

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    France's young republic was now fighting back on all fronts.

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    And with the fall of Toulon, the Allies had lost a golden opportunity – a chance to

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    stir up further revolt, deal a lasting blow to French naval power... perhaps even overturn

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    the Revolution.

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    But instead, the French Republic had weathered one of its greatest storms....

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    In no small part, thanks to the remarkable judgement, energy, and courage of one 24-year-old

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    artillery officer, now promoted Brigadier General in recognition of his extraordinary

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    service at Toulon.

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    Napoleon Bonaparte had taken his first step on the path to greatness.

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The example sentences of REVOLT in videos (15 in total of 69)

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Use "revolt" in a sentence | "revolt" example sentences

How to use "revolt" in a sentence?

  • The Negro revolt is not aimed at winning friends but at winning freedom, not interpersonal warmth but institutional justice.
    -John Henry Cox-
  • To crave for happiness in this world is simply to be possessed by a spirit of revolt. What right have we to happiness?
    -Henrik Ibsen-
  • That great Kabbilistical association known in Europe under the name of Masonry appeared suddenly in the world when the revolt against the Church had just succeeded in dismembering Christian unity.
    -Eliphas Levi-
  • We must not, however, be like the leaders of the great romantic revolt who, in their eagerness to get rid of the husk of convention, disregarded also the humane aspiration.
    -Irving Babbitt-
  • Popular revolt against a ruthless, experienced modern dictatorship, which enjoys a monopoly over weapons and communications, ... is simply not a possibility in the modern age.
    -George F. Kennan-
  • [It is] useful to know the laws of nature - for that enables us to obey them. To act otherwise would be to rise in revolt against heaven.
    -Adolf Hitler-
  • Every true writer is like a bird; he repeats the same song, the same theme, all his life. For me, this theme as always been revolt.
    -Alberto Moravia-
  • Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.
    -James Joyce-

Definition and meaning of REVOLT

What does "revolt mean?"

/rəˈvōlt/

adjective
Causing you to feel distaste or shock.
noun
Protest against authority; fight to take control.
verb
To cause someone to feel distaste or shock.

What are synonyms of "revolt"?
Some common synonyms of "revolt" are:
  • rebel,
  • rise,
  • riot,
  • mutiny,
  • disgust,
  • sicken,

You can find detailed definitions of them on this page.