The Battle of Toulon

Dapet was a fervent jacobin and there were precious few trained military officers s the convention found politically reliable, so he rose quickly through the ranks. Napoleon soon found himself just as annoyed at dape's incompetence and indecisiveness as he had been at carta's. The harbor of toulon is protected from the open sea by a series of peninsulas that jut out into the mediterranean. These natural land barriers protect the ships inside from the elements and make it easy to guard the narrow entrance against enemy raids. If the republicans could gain control over one of those peninsulas, the situation of the defen ders would suddenly become very dangerous. Once