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Re: ten weeks on the northumberland
Jun 30, 2003 12:44 PM
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Absolutely - the reason he was sent to st. helena is because it was in the middle of the vastness of nowhere - the english were still afraid of him and couldn't risk him escaping again...
strange coincidence that the british family he stayed with had a few months previously, played host to Wellington, who had stopped there on his travels... Napoleon ate at the same table, from the same plate, that the Duke had done a few months back...(he was not made aware of this though, they thought it tackful not to inform him)
longwood was hardly more than a converted cowshed. Napoleon had been promised America and instead, was landed on a 'barren rock' in the middle of nowhere. i wouldn't blame him for complaining...
i'm not sure how well the staff got on..apparently, they were each jealous of the attentions Napoleon might lavish on the other..squabbles, families all in one place..you know the way...
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kelly1
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ten weeks on the northumberland
Jun 29, 2003 11:56 PM
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-the second exile has begun and napoleon has set sail for the small island of st. helena- ten weeks is a long time to be on the ocean-
- it is said that the island is half the size of elba- was that on purpose? to keep track of him and prevent a landing of sympathetic bonapartists somewhere on an unseen shore or just that st. helena's location off the african coast-
-napoleon's quarters were not ready upon his arrival so he quartered with a british family- his own home, longwood? and suppiles, and his own household staff- why then did he complain so bitterly of his treatment? (and to whom??)- just because sir lowe would not call him "your majesty"? would his complaints have been present no matter what is his treatment?
-is it true that his staff never got along one with another? why then did they stay? -the party was indeed over?-
thanks, kelly
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