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Nelson at Naples: Revolution and Retribution in 1799 - Hardcover

North, Jonathan

 
9781445679372: Nelson at Naples: Revolution and Retribution in 1799
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 144567937X ISBN 13: 9781445679372
Verlag: Amberley Publishing, 2018

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During the wars which followed in the wake of the French Revolution, France’s armies turned on Britain’s last ally in Italy, the kingdom of Naples. The French chased out King Ferdinand and Queen Maria Carolina and established a revolutionary republic. It lasted six months before an Army of the Holy Faith besieged them. In June 1799, the revolutionaries capitulated, after a promise of safe escape to France. Shortly afterwards Horatio Nelson's fleet sailed into the bay. At first, the admiral permitted the republicans and their families to troop down to the harbor. But then he struck, violating the treaty of surrender by seizing the would-be exiles in their transports. Hundreds of Neapolitans found themselves delivered up to a merciless enemy. In Italy the event became synonymous with betrayal, and Nelson's honor was even questioned in his native land. This book concludes that Nelson did indeed commit a war crime. Not only that, but Sir William and Lady Hamilton encouraged him. Nelson’s subsequent affair with Emma Hamilton in Naples then became a pointed contrast to the ongoing slaughter in the bay.

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Jonathan North is the author of Napoleon's Army in Russia.

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Verlag
Amberley Publishing
Erscheinungsdatum
2018
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
144567937X
ISBN 13 
9781445679372
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
288
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