Parole towns in Britain [ Cities ]
… reports of bad behaviour by French prisoners, he had managed to diffuse the prisoners’ high spirits and went on to downplay their behaviour by describing it as ‘[…] too trifling to make the subject of a letter’. 3 Perhaps this … conduct in the aftermath of Napoleon’s return from Elba and events at Waterloo that he dwells at length. It was clearly playing on his mind and, perhaps, time spent isolated on parole in Britain far away from events in France may have given …
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