Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- PLATES, CHARTS AND PLANS
- PREFACE
- METHOD OF DATING
- Chapter I Means and Ways: The Instrument
- Chapter II Ways and Means: The Use of the Instrument
- Chapter III Mediterranean Outline: Cadiz to Port Mahon
- Chapter IV The French Squadronal Attack on the Trade in the Channel Soundings, 1704
- Chapter V Barcelona, 1705
- CHAPTER VI Toulon, 1707
- CHAPTER VII Cruisers and Convoys in 1707
- CHAPTER VIII “The Alarm from Dunkirk”, 1708
- A Particulars of Typical Ships of Queen Anne's Navy
- B State of Her Majesty's Ships in Commission
- C Confederate Ships of the Line at Home and in the Mediterranean 1702 to 1710
- D State of the French Navy
- E Admiral Fairborne's Proposal for the Main Fleet in 1703
- F The Cruisers and Convoys Act, 1708
- Notes
- Index
- Plate section
CHAPTER VI - Toulon, 1707
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 July 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- PLATES, CHARTS AND PLANS
- PREFACE
- METHOD OF DATING
- Chapter I Means and Ways: The Instrument
- Chapter II Ways and Means: The Use of the Instrument
- Chapter III Mediterranean Outline: Cadiz to Port Mahon
- Chapter IV The French Squadronal Attack on the Trade in the Channel Soundings, 1704
- Chapter V Barcelona, 1705
- CHAPTER VI Toulon, 1707
- CHAPTER VII Cruisers and Convoys in 1707
- CHAPTER VIII “The Alarm from Dunkirk”, 1708
- A Particulars of Typical Ships of Queen Anne's Navy
- B State of Her Majesty's Ships in Commission
- C Confederate Ships of the Line at Home and in the Mediterranean 1702 to 1710
- D State of the French Navy
- E Admiral Fairborne's Proposal for the Main Fleet in 1703
- F The Cruisers and Convoys Act, 1708
- Notes
- Index
- Plate section
Summary
The anxious campaign in Italy in 1706 having ended in the saving of Turin, the occasion came at last to attempt Toulon. The Maritime Powers and the Duke of Savoy agreed upon a Project for this undertaking during the winter. England and the States General supplied the fleet, which eventually numbered thirty-one British and fifteen Dutch ships of the line and more than twenty lesser men-of-war under Sir Clowdisley Shovell and Vice-Admiraal Philips van der Goes (succeeded on his death in June by Kapitein Johan van Convent) with Vice-Admiral Sir George Byng and Rear-Admirals Sir Thomas Dilkes and Sir John Norris. Savoy and the Empire supplied the troops, some 30,000 or more, many of them in British or Dutch pay, led by the Duke of Savoy himself and Prince Eugene. Sir John Norris, who had been lately first captain to Shovell, went ahead of the fleet to Turin to serve as the Admiral's representative with the army. Among his papers in the British Museum is a copy of the Project, of which the following is a transcript:
Her Majesty the Queen, having seen with a great deal of satisfaction that his Royal Highness was entirely disposed to conform himself to the design which she has had a long time of executing the enterprise on Toulon as soon as the state of affairs in Italy might give leave, has ordered her Ministers to hold conference with those of his Royal Highness upon this expedition, in which conferences they have agreed and resolved as follows.
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- War at Sea Under Queen Anne 1702–1708 , pp. 158 - 192Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010