Napoleon the Gaoler: Personal Experiences and Adventures of British Sailors and Soldiers During the Great Captivity"This century has seen the Centenary of the release of Napoleon's British Prisoners of War." "...between 1803 and 1814...the British prisoners numbered fewer than 12,000, and of these, speaking generally, more than a third were merchantman officers and sailors captured at sea by French frigates and privateers." -- preface and introduction. |
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... short shrift . " C'est une mauvaise plaisanterie de dire que les prisonniers ne veulent pas travailler " was his cynical comment on hearing the news . Napoleon thereupon issued an order atrocious in its deliberate inhumanity . The ...
... short shrift . " C'est une mauvaise plaisanterie de dire que les prisonniers ne veulent pas travailler " was his cynical comment on hearing the news . Napoleon thereupon issued an order atrocious in its deliberate inhumanity . The ...
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... short time before that , had been sent with Platoff's Cossacks to over - run the country beyond the Elbe and raid Napoleon's line of communications . In these attacks some two - thirds of the prisoners were liberated , after which what ...
... short time before that , had been sent with Platoff's Cossacks to over - run the country beyond the Elbe and raid Napoleon's line of communications . In these attacks some two - thirds of the prisoners were liberated , after which what ...
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... short of offering violence to the gendarmes sent to find them . Violence to a gendarme entailed a sentence of deportation to a punishment depôt . Senior officers on parole - they were all kept at Verdun -were after a time exempted from ...
... short of offering violence to the gendarmes sent to find them . Violence to a gendarme entailed a sentence of deportation to a punishment depôt . Senior officers on parole - they were all kept at Verdun -were after a time exempted from ...
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... short in supply , and of wretched quality . It comprised , according to regulation , " a knitted waistcoat and pantaloons , a wagoner's frock , and a hat . " " A straw hat per man and coarse grey cloth coat and fustian trousers was the ...
... short in supply , and of wretched quality . It comprised , according to regulation , " a knitted waistcoat and pantaloons , a wagoner's frock , and a hat . " " A straw hat per man and coarse grey cloth coat and fustian trousers was the ...
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... short in quantity , but also of bad quality , sour , and uneatable ; and the small portion of meat and veget- ables provided for the soup maigre on which they had to subsist as a principal item of their dinners was poor stuff , and ...
... short in quantity , but also of bad quality , sour , and uneatable ; and the small portion of meat and veget- ables provided for the soup maigre on which they had to subsist as a principal item of their dinners was poor stuff , and ...
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