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ST HELENA Interview by Jonathan O’Callaghan 1815

NAPOLEON

ESCAPES TO THE

UNITED STATES!

Eluding exile, a belligerent Napoleon declares himself King of Mexico and

has his sights set on returning to the French throne

What happened after Napoleon was French coast, to Rochefort. He thought he escape the British blockade. Napoleon
EXCLUSIVE defeated at the Battle of Waterloo in was going to get passports, possibly to go decided in the end he wasn’t going to
to the United States. However once he got
June 1815?
try this option, because he didn’t think
He abdicated from the French throne, and there, he found that the passports he had it would be to his dignity to hide himself
Interview With he had to figure out what to do, as the been hoping for were not forthcoming. and go to the US as a fugitive. He wrote
allies were potentially going to come and So there was dithering back and forth in a special letter to the Prince Regent,
capture him. He spent a bit of time sitting the port about what Napoleon was going saying he was going to put himself at the
around Paris, waiting to see what was to do. Some of his followers went to see mercy of the British people. He got on a
going to happen, and then he went to the whether American ships were willing to shipthattookhimtoPlymouth,butit

The British exiled
Napoleon on St I’M A TYRANT, GET ME OUT
Helena in 1818
OF HERE! RETURNS

A new series of the hit
reality show will be shown in
theatres around the country
SHANNON SELIN every Saturday night at 8pm.
A company of actors will

Shannon Selin is a historical recreate humiliating scenes
fiction writer and the author of the fallen French emperor
of Napoleon in America, which enduring St Helena’s
explores what might have infamous ‘beach tucker
happened if Napoleon had
made it to the US. trials’, as detailed by the
weekly correspondence
of Lieutenants Anthony
McPartlin and Declan
Donnelly of the Royal Navy.

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