"Emperor in Exile — Could Napoleon Have Escaped .." Topic
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| Tango01 | 29 Jul 2015 1:06 p.m. PST |
…From St. Helena? "THE PREMISE OF Napoleon in America is that Bonaparte escapes from the island of St. Helena. He was banished there in 1815 after being forced from the French throne following his defeat at Waterloo. Napoleon was considered the prisoner of all four powers that allied to defeat him (Great Britain, Austria, Prussia and Russia). Britain alone had custody of him. A volcanic speck in the South Atlantic Ocean – 1,200 miles (1,900 km) west of Africa and 2,000 miles (3,200 km) east of Brazil – seemed an ideal place to stash a public menace, especially one who had earlier in the year managed to escape from the considerably less remote island of Elba. A jail break would be a tough proposition. The island's forbidding terrain was augmented by strong fortifications. As Alexander Beatson, an officer in the East India Company (which possessed the island) and governor of St. Helena from 1808 to 1813, wrote:…"
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| 49mountain | 30 Jul 2015 12:43 p.m. PST |
Sounds like the plot from a Hornblower novel. It is – which book? |
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