This would be Toulon, on the Mediterranean Sea.
In 1793, it was occupied by British and and Spanish Forces, who supported the royalists opposing the Revolutionary French Government. Napoleon was the French artillery commander at this siege, and after the French succesfully drove the enemy out, Napoleon was promoted to Brigadier General
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The British Parliament passed the Intolerable Acts and closed the port of Boston in response to the Boston Tea Party.
The American forces managed to corner the British Army on a peninsula. The French Navy prevented the British Navy from being able to rescue them. The results was the surrender of the British.
The port city of New Orleans has been owned by many and influenced by a variety of cultures through the years. The first to offer to buy it was the French Mississippi Company.
The British Closed the Harbor and made the boston people pay for the tea that had been dumped.the colonists got very angry.
It was King George III you're thinking of here. :) The Boston Port Act was enacted March 31, 1774, and was supposed to be enforced until Boston had paid restitution for the tea destroyed in the Boston Tea Party. As the main source of trade and commerce for Massachusetts, this Act did not go over well, as you can imagine. The Siege of Boston followed shortly afterward, and British General Thomas Gage occupied Boston, and the British used the Boston Port to bring in their own war supplies and troops. The following March, the Continental Army drove the British out of Boston, and March 17 is now celebrated as Evacuation Day. So, to answer your question, just barely under a year. revolutionary-war.net