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The Surrender of Napoleon: Being the Narrative of the Surrender of Buonaparte, and of His Residence on Board H. M.S. Bellerophon, With a Detail of the ... The 24th of May and the 8th of Augus

by Frederick Lewis Maitland

2019-01-17 23:29:33

"You are publishing a great and interesting national document.... The whole narrative is as fine, manly, and explicit an account as ever was given of so interesting a transaction." So wrote Sir Walter Scott to Captain Maitland after reading the manus ... Read more
"You are publishing a great and interesting national document.... The whole narrative is as fine, manly, and explicit an account as ever was given of so interesting a transaction." So wrote Sir Walter Scott to Captain Maitland after reading the manuscript of his Narrative of the Surrender of Buonaparte. It is undoubtedly a historical document of the first importance, not only as a record of "words by an eyewitness" of an ever-memorable event, but as a vindication of the good faith of the British Government in its conduct towards Napoleon. Less

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File size405.865 KB
Print pages180
PublisherPublic Domain Books
Publication date2019-02-23
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9781331602170,
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Frederick Lewis Maitland
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Rear-Admiral Sir Frederick Lewis Maitland KCB (7 September 1777 – 30 November 1839) was an officer in the Royal Navy during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. He rose to the rank of rear ...

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