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Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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Brig Hope Capt. Field arrived from Cadiz reporting the French republicans' re-capture of Toulon around December 18, storming Fort la Malgue at night, forcing combined forces to flee by boats and fleets to Port Mahon after destroying captured French ships; many drowned, Englishmen killed in retaliation; account confirmed by Capt. Sutton.
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Capt. Sutton arrived yesterday from Cadiz, and confirms the foregoing account of the Re-capture of Toulon.
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Toulon
Event Date
About The 18th Of December
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many were drowned, and that the french put every englishman they found to the sword... the slaughter was said to be great... combined fleets... departed for port mahon... after destroying the french fleet they had captured
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information was received... of the RE-CAPTURE OF TOULON, by the French republicans... the French carried the great Fort of la Malgue, by storm, during the sitting of a council of war, at 12 o'clock at night; that the combined forces immediately fled to their boats... That the combined fleets slipped their cables and had departed for Port Mahon in the Mediterranean