Age of Revolutions · BATTLE SITE · 1793

Siege of Toulon (1793)

Dec 1793 — Bonaparte was a 24-year-old artillery captain when he placed the guns that drove the British fleet from Toulon’s harbor. He was made general on the spot.

When: Dec 1793
Type: Battle site
Chapter: Reign of Terror (chapter 4 of Age of Revolutions)
Atlas: The Age of Revolutions, 1775–1848

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Map showing Siege of Toulon (1793), battle site in The Age of Revolutions, 1775–1848 — BATTLE SITE · THE AGE OF REVOLUTIONS, 1775–1848

These maps are reconstructed from published sources · Cliopatria v 0.2.1 · National Army Museum: Valenciennes and the 1793 Flanders campaign · Gendarmerie nationale: Hondschoote 1793 · Natural Earth physical geography · Maps of History: Revolutions reconstruction decisions

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Cliopatria contributors / Seshat Global History Databank. Selected, combined, reprojected and corrected by Maps of History as described per layer.. CC BY4.0
National Army Museum; Famars/Valenciennes campaign and limited frontier advances.. Historical evidence citation; no artwork copied
French Gendarmerie nationale; Bergues and Hondschoote campaign locations.. Historical evidence citation; no map copied
Made with Natural Earth; present coastlines support physical clipping, not historical political boundaries.. Public domain
Maps of History: regional revolt/campaign footprints are inferred teaching regions, not surveyed fronts or homogeneous control.. Original educational reconstruction using cited datasets and historical evidence

Annual source outlines can combine imperial claims with areas of control. The labels identify the historical role selected, while dates finer than the source interval are made explicit in these details.

Displayed map state e 93 at 1793.15; chapter framing 1793.6. Where finer geometry is unavailable, monthly states use annual source references.

reconstruction: 1793.15 · vector: 1645–1793 · vector: 1709–1808 · vector: 1721–1813 · vector: 1734–1795 · vector: 1748–1793 · vector: 1748–1795 · vector: 1748–1796 · vector: 1757–1798 · vector: 1757–1804 · vector: 1762–1793 · vector: 1762–1798 · vector: 1763–1808 · vector: 1769–1841 · vector: 1772–1806 · vector: 1772–1810 · vector: 1775–1795 · vector: 1775–1802 · vector: 1775–1806 · vector: 1775–1810 · vector: 1781–1795 · vector: 1783–1799 · vector: 1788–1793 · vector: 1788–1808 · vector: 1788–1810 · vector: 1791–1793 · vector: 1791–1795 · vector: 1791–1796 · vector: 1791–1799 · vector: 1791–1802 · vector: 1792–1793 · vector: 1792–1804 · vector: 1792–1806 · vector: 1792–1829

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