Napoleon and the Battle of Toulon

When napoleon took command, the coalition troops in toulon had artillery superiority. But by cajoling local garrison commanders and supply officer s, napoleon soon assembled enough cannon to outmatch them. He sent his deputies all over southern france in search of more cannons and supplies. By the end of the siege, there would be 50 batteries built and up to 11 en aged at one time. The republican gunners gave them colorful names, the jacobin battery, the convention battery, the rogue hunters, the sancoulot, the four windmills,. At night, napoleon often stayed at a battery rather than returning to camp, sleeping on the ground by his guns,