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Earlier this summer while reading Michael Lewis’ Napoleon and his British Captives I was reminded of the lovely piece of detective work that joyful_molly did last year when she tracked down Lieutenant Thomas Innes whose snuff box appeared on the Antiques Roadshow. The pedigree of the snuff box is impressive, it was presented by French Admiral Compte de Grasse ( Read more... )

Lewis, M., (1962), Napoleon and his British Captives, George Allen & Unwin Ltd, London.

Michael Lewis’ Napoleon and his British Captives is the most comprehensive overview I’ve come across of the lives of British prisoners of war in France during the Napoleonic Wars. As one would expect of a late professor of History at the Royal Naval College it ( Read more... )