Napoleon's British visitors and captives, 1801-1815

About This Book

Hook line: Explore the complex web of British visitors and prisoners at Napoleon's court from 1801 to 1815.From the early 1800s through the fall of Napoleon, English travelers, diplomats, and captives navigated shifting lines of hospitality, detention, and diplomacy. This book chronicles how a truce in the Amiens era gave way to renewed hostilities, and how the treatment of British visitors and prisoners reflected the broader tensions of war, law, and power.- Learn how diplomacy and personal risk shaped who stayed, who left, and who was held- See the realities of embargoes, seizures, and rapid...