Dictionary of Battles / From the Earliest Date to the Present Time

by Thomas Benfield Harbottle

Toulon (War of the Spanish Succession).

An attack was made upon the fortress by a combined Dutch and British fleet, under Sir Cloudesley Shovel, July 17, 1707. The allies failed to gain a footing in the town, but 8 French ships lying in the harbour and 130 houses were destroyed by fire.