Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A lokacin da aka fara yaki da Faransa a 1793 an nada shi a matsayin kwamandan Hotham na flagship, 100-gun, ganin aikin a siege na Toulon. Bayan tunawa da Admiral Samuel Hood a ƙarshen 1794, Hotham ya zama Babban Kwamandan Rundunar Ruwa na Bahar Rum, kuma Holloway ya zama Kyaftin na Rundunar. A matsayin haka ya shiga cikin yakin Genoa
a watan Maris na shekara ta 1795 da kuma yakin tsibirin Hyères a watan Yuli. A ƙarshen shekara Hotham ya maye gurbin Admiral Sir John Jervis, kuma an nada Holloway a matsayin kwamandan bindigogi 98. Ya kasance a cikinta a Spithead Mutiny a watan Mayu 1797, kuma bayan haka ya umurci, a haɗe da Channel Fleet.