Juan de Lángara
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Captain general of the Navy Juan Francisco de Lángara y Huarte was a Spanish Navy officer and politician.
Portrait of Lángara
Siege of Toulon (1793)
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The siege of Toulon was fought at the French Mediterranean naval base of Toulon during the War of the First Coalition. It began after opponents of the radical Montagnard government, initially associat
Juan de Lángara
…general of the Navy, after serving for a time as an effective naval minister. In 1793 he joined Sir Samuel Hood, with 18 Spanish ships-of-the-line, in occupying the French naval arsenal of Toulon (August–December). The mutual cooperation between the two sides was marked by tension and suspicion. Horatio Nelson…
General view of the siege on 30 November 1793, depicted in an 1839 watercolour by Sigismond Himely
A contemporary revolutionary print depicting the Republican recapture of Toulon and the Allied withdrawal
Illustration of the destruction of the French fleet at Toulon
Illustration of the evacuation of Toulon