Reclaimed by the Republic, vengeance was swift. Mass shootings engulfed Toulon as the royalist rebels were put to the sword. This episode extra explores the phases of Toulon’s Terror and the controversies which surround them.
Thousands try to flee Toulon as the Republic’s armies advance. In the resulting chaos, scenes of misery and panic define the last hours of the siege. Historians paint starkly different pictures of these events, and the controversies are countless.
Toulon’s Federalist Revolt! As the Federalist Revolts collapsed around them, the citizens of Toulon faced an unenviable choice: the Jacobins and the British. Their decision would shape the Republic, the Empire, and the entire history of Europe...