Colonel Wilks and Napoleon
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Excerpt from Colonel Wilks and Napoleon: Two Conversations Held at St. Helena in 1816 "Bertrand," says Lord Rosebery, in describing the little circle that surrounded Napoleon at St. Helena, "Bertrand bad an agreeable singularity: he wrote no book." A scarred biographer will sympathise with Lord Rosebery´s sentiment, and any one can appreciate Bertrand´s self-control. The great prisoner offered a subject so enticing, and life on the island was so dull, that a man who could resist the temptation to write a book could probably have resisted anything. But Bertrand was not the only St. Anthony. There was another beside him - a man whose temptation was even greater than Bertrand´s. For not only had he exceptional opportunities of observation, but he was also a man of letters and might have been the first in the field. This man was Colonel Mark Wilks, who was Governor of the island under the Fast India Company when Napoleon landed. In Lord Rosebery´s book be is so little noticed as even to have escaped with other minor characters the vigilance of the indexer. It is natural enough. Beyond the fact that Napoleon liked and respected him during the few months they were thrown together, little or nothing was known of his influence on the story. Indeed. 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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