This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1866 edition. Excerpt: ...but France was invaded at two points, --Brittany, then Provence. At the end of September, an English squadron had landed in the Bay of Poulduc six thousand soldiers, who marched on Lorient in order to destroy the settlements and carry off the magazines of the Indian Company. The place was but half fortified, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1866 edition. Excerpt: ...but France was invaded at two points, --Brittany, then Provence. At the end of September, an English squadron had landed in the Bay of Poulduc six thousand soldiers, who marched on Lorient in order to destroy the settlements and carry off the magazines of the Indian Company. The place was but half fortified, and was only defended by some hastily assembled militia. The commander capitulated. Happily, as he was about to deliver up the place, the English imagined that he was laying a snare for them, and was preparing to burst upon them with superior forces: seized with a panic, they reembarked, carrying away nothing but ridicule of their expedition (October 7-8). 1 According to Saint-Simon, whom Mirabeau forcibly confirms.--See Jffm. de Mirabeau, t. I. liv. i., and Correspondance de Saint-Simon. The attack against Provence seemed more formidable. It was again the English that had caused it to be decided upon; for the Austrians, once masters of Genoa, would have far rather gone to conquer Naples. The position was critical. The Neapolitans had reembarked for their country; the greater part of the Spaniards had repaired by the way of Dauphiny to Savoy, the last possession left to Don Philip; the French army, melted away by battle, sickness, and desertion, numbered only twelve thousand men, besides a few Provencal militia; and the King of Sardinia was advancing with forty thousand Austro-Piedmontese, supported by the English fleet. It was not in a condition to dispute the erossing of the Var; and the Marshal de Belle-Isle, who reappeared at last hi this war opened by him, and whom the cabinet had given Maillebois for a successor, thought himself obliged to fall back to Puget, four leagues from Toulon (the end of November). Half of Provence was abandoned..
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