Napoleon at St. Helena, Vol. 2 of 2 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

O'meara, Barry Edward

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ISBN 10: 1331631084 ISBN 13: 9781331631088

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2018

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I endeavored to controvert the tenor of some of his assertions but in consequence of not being sufficiently well acquainted with the circumstances, I could make but a feeble effort against a man who was master of the subject, to say nothing of the diffi culty of contending against such an antagonist.

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7th. - Napoleon very particular in inquiring about Captain Meynell, whose death he observed would grieve him, as he had l'air d'un brave homme. Had some more conversation with him relative to the prisoners made at the commencement of the war. I said, that I believed he had demanded that the ships as well as the prisoners made in them should be given up in exchange for those detained in France. He replied, that he did not recollect that he had demanded the ships. "The only reason," added he, "that your government would give as a right for detaining them as prisoners was, that they had always done so in preceding wars, and that it would be lessening to the dignity of the government to give them up, or to consider as prisoners of war those who had been detained by me in France. To this I answered, that they had always done so, because they had to deal with imbeciles, and people who knew not how to act vigorously, and were afraid to retaliate. As to the exchange of prisoners, I offered to effect it in the following manner, viz. to send three thousand men, consisting of two thousand Spaniards and Portuguese, and one thousand English to a certain place, there to be exchanged for three thousand French, and so on until all were exchanged.

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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1331631084
• ISBN 13: 9781331631088
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 326