As it was, the occupation had resulted in a degree of destruction to the French ships and arsenal in Toulon, which, though then over-estimated, was a real gain to the allies.
FOOTNOTES: [18] Turin was capital of the Kingdom of Sardinia, which embraced the island of that name and the Province of Piedmont.
[19] This statement, which apparently depends upon a memoir supplied many years later by the first lieutenant of the "Boreas," is not strictly accurate, for Nelson himself, in a letter written shortly after her arrival in the West Indies, mentions that several of her ship's company had been carried off by fever (Nicolas, vol.i.p.

111); but it can doubtless be accepted as evidence of an unusually healthy condition..