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Gazette Of The United States & Evening Advertiser
Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania
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Lord Hood's forces evacuated Toulon on December 18, burning 10 French ships of the line and 10 frigates. They salvaged multiple allied ships and left 9 ships of the line, 3 frigates, and 3 hulks for the Spaniards to destroy, which they failed to do.
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I suppose you must have heard of Lord Hood's getting possession of Toulon; which I now inform you he was under the necessity of evacuating the 18th of December last. The same evening they burnt ten sail of the line of French ships, ten frigates with their arsenals, &c. We brought off our ship of an hundred and ten guns, two seventy-four, four sixty and thirty, four two and thirty gun frigates, and eighteen gun sloops. We left undestroyed nine sail of the line, three frigates and three hulks, which the Spaniards promised to destroy: but whether it was from fear or policy they left it undone, I shall not pretend to say.
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Toulon
Event Date
18th Of December Last
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burnt ten sail of the line of french ships and ten frigates; brought off one 110-gun ship, two 74-gun ships, four 60- and 30-gun ships, four 32-gun frigates, and eighteen-gun sloops; left undestroyed nine sail of the line, three frigates, and three hulks which spaniards did not destroy.
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Lord Hood evacuated Toulon on the 18th of December last, burning ten French ships of the line and ten frigates with arsenals that evening. Allied forces salvaged several ships and left others undestroyed, which the Spaniards promised but failed to destroy.