Napoleon: A Biography
British would give a safe-conduct to the Emperor or whether they were determined to block his passage to the U.S.A. Maitland kne ...
asylum with the British. Next morning his envoys returned to the Bellerophon. Maitland said he would willingly take Napoleon to ...
crew, though his prodigious need for sleep was much commented on. On 23 July he saw the last of the European mainland off Ushant ...
demanded that Napoleon Bonaparte appear as a witness. A writ of habeas corpus was obtained, requiring Napoleon's presence in cou ...
CHAPTER TWENTY -EIGHT As Napoleon was borne southwards by his British captors, he had plenty of time to take stock of the motley ...
thirty-three-year-old Marquis Charles Tristan de Montholon was always an unlikely Bonapartist. So far from being a distinguished ...
was sighted. Napoleon spent most of his time playing vingt-et-un with his courtiers or whist with the British officers, but like ...
garden of 'The Briars', where resided William Balcom be, the East India Company agent. At The Briars Napoleon amused himself by ...
hundred.' Soon he decided to cut his losses, and after October 1816 there were no more English lessons. Although the Emperor wou ...
divulged the new instructions from Bathurst, a man who was as much his alter ego as Neipperg had been Metternich's. These turned ...
spoke of begging his bread from the British garrison, as one soldier from others. Then he and Lowe became involved in a heated s ...
Holland House and the many other powerful Bonaparte supporters in England. In March 1817 articles appeared in The Times, clearly ...
carried out, arrived on the island, they too found Lowe a sore trial. The French Commissioner, the marquis de Montchenu, he who ...
alternated insomnia at night with drowsiness by day. He told O'Meara he suspected the British of poisoning him. The curious cycl ...
spending too much time with his wife and family, Montholon was put in charge of the household. Bertrand felt this an infringemen ...
Emperor released, the damage was done. Not surpisingly, Gourgaud was not mentioned in Napoleon's will. Having seen the back of b ...
circulated it to the Prince Regent and his rakish circle; meanwhile he accepted money from Napoleon without telling Lowe or the ...
shook his head. Then Napoleon exclaimed angrily: 'I would live to be eighty if I had not been brought to this damned island.' On ...
tendency to conclude that he 'must have been' a poor doctor. This non sequitur is not borne out by the evidence. Antommarchi had ...
During a walk on Sandy Bay in March 1820 he met Hudson Lowe's wife and was surprised to find her very pretty - he had not lost h ...
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