A Polish Exile With Napoleon
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Excerpt from A Polish Exile With Napoleon: Embodying the Letters of Captain Piontkowski to General Sir Robert Wilson and Many Documents From the Lowe Papers, the Colonial Office Records, the Wilson Manuscripts, the Capel Lofft Correspondence, and the French and Genevese Archives Hitherto Unpublish In the suggestive and sympathetic chapters Lord Rosebery published under the title of Napoleon: the Last Phase occurs a passage which may be said to supply the raison d´être of this monograph. It begins: ´Piontkowski remains a figure of mystery,´ and concludes: ´but his appearance and career at Longwood still require elucidation.´ It is that ´mystery´ I have essayed to probe tant bien que mal, and that elucidation I have done my little best to supply. If further excuse were needed, I might find it in another period in the same book: ´More especially do people esteem the memoirs of any who came, however momentarily, into contact with Napoleon.´ The ´Polish Follower´ at St. Helena came into much more than momentary contact with the Captive, and in default of any set ´Memoirs´ has at least left us a series of letters addressed in the summer of 1817, when freshly landed in England from the Rock, to the once famous and still remembered soldier and politician, Sir Robert T. Wilson. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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