"Plot to kill Napoleon linked to British cabinet minister " Topic

"When an officer at the battle of Waterloo told the Duke of Wellington that Napoleon was in their gun sights, the field marshal replied that it was "not the business of commanders to be firing upon one another".

What seemed dishonourable for a battlefield soldier was not for politicians, for it seems that the British government was behind an assassination attempt on Napoleon in 1804, according to historian Andrew Roberts. He has unearthed archival material that he believes directly implicates cabinet minister Lord Castlereagh in the unsuccessful 1804 Cadoudal French royalist plot to assassinate Napoleon.

Roberts said: "Although historians have wondered whether or not the British were behind it, at the time the British government denied any connection and has done ever since. I have discovered the smoking-gun connection."

He said he had found evidence of direct British government involvement in correspondence which had been overlooked until now in a US archive. The first letter, written in 1803, includes a demand for a vast sum of money "relative to a political intrigue planned by Lord Castlereagh to abduct Bonaparte"…."
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Armand

The British government supported the Bourbon exiles in Great Britain and the Bourbons were behind the assassination attempts on Napoleon.

It appears to me that it is nothing more than a 'connect the dots' exercise.

One of those, Cadoudal, ran a training camp for 'conspirators and guerillas' at Romsey in England. After England declared war on France in May, 1803, English money was funneled to Cadoudal by way of William Windham. The Comte d'Artois was the Bourbon in touch with Windham and Cadoudal.

This is explained very well in Vincent Cronin's biography of Napoleon.

I'm shocked! SHOCKED I tell you!

C'est la morte!

Now come on Armand, you know that if the British did anything nasty it was for a 'good' cause, it is only if Napoleon or the French do it that it must be an act of despicable evil. LOL

(big smile)

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Armand

Just another scheme that wasted money – It didn't work so wasn't worth it .