Quotes About Toulon

Four years later, in December 1797, Tipu despatched an embassy seeking Napoleon's help against the Company. What the Sultan of Mysore did not know was that the army he needed was already being prepared in Toulon. By the time Tipu's embassy arrived in Paris, in April 1798, Napoleon was waiting for an opportunity to sail his 194 ships, carrying 19,000 of his best men, out of Toulon, and across the Mediterranean to Egypt. Napoleon was quite clear as to his plans.

The weather is beautiful in Toulon and the girls are beautiful and I don't want to leave.

The whole enterprise had been doomed from the start, right from the day the French fleet left Toulon six months earlier.