Talk:Siege of Toulon (1793)

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I translated this page! Hopefully it makes sense and I didn't do anything like miss something and grossly change history. One thing that could be changed: Near the end it is noted that Napoleon was injured in the haunch. He was injured by the pointy thing that soldiers used to stick on the end of their rifles, but I forgot what it's called, so anyone who remembers can just stick that in there. User:Joomba (talk) 00:22, 8 November 2005‎

The name of that "thing" is "bayonet" or, if you prefer, "baionette" in français —Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.57.189.227 (talk) 18:16, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

Forces

The French language wikipedia gives 32.000 French vs 22.000 allied troops. In your article however is given 60.000 (!) for the French. It looks to me like somebody sexed up the numbers. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2602:30A:2C21:3060:68CD:C121:C000:F983 (talk) 15:58, 12 July 2013 (UTC)

ships burnt

I don't understand this:

The allies then decided to evacuate by their maritime route. Commodore Sydney Smith was instructed by Hood to have the delivery fleet and the arsenal burnt; this has been described as the "most crippling blow to the French navy in the second half of the 18th century".[5]

From the first part, I thought this described the allies (English & others) burning their own ships that they couldn't take with them. But this wouldn't be a blow to the French.

If they burnt French ships - how did they have access to them? They'd been left in Toulon harbor all that time? In that case, surely they should have been considered lost from the time Toulon was taken by the allies? --Chriswaterguy talk 20:37, 9 July 2011 (UTC)

Agree about this. The Royalist seizure of Toulon was a preceding event who may be covered in detail, but after the siege the French Navy didn't lack anything they lacked before, the British and Royalists scuttled their own fleet, even if those were prize ships, those were not on French hands during the Siege of Toulon Nuevousuario1011 (talk) 15:17, 4 January 2023 (UTC)

Napoleon's Rank

While the article correctly lists Napoleon Bonaparte as a Captain, the caption under the painting "Napoleon à Toulon (1793) par Edouard Detaille" erroneously lists him as a General. Can we safely change this? Or does someone else have more information to add?Farkeld (talk) 18:07, 13 January 2013 (UTC)