Admiral of the Red Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood was a Royal Navy officer and politician. As a junior officer he saw action during the War of the Austrian Succession. While in temporary command of An
Portrait by James Northcote, 1784
The Battle of the Chesapeake, at which Hood was defeated
1795 portrait of Hood by Lemuel Francis Abbott
The Officers Monument, Greenwich Hospital Cemetery
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
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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