Sir Sidney Smith Imprisoned in the Temple

[anteros_lmc]

Shamelessly pinched from the NMM today...217 years ago today Sir Sidney Smith was imprisoned in the Temple prison in Paris after being transferred from Abbaye where he had been held since being captured during a cutting out expedition at Le Havre in April 1796. Despite numerous attempts to free him, Smith was held by the French for two years

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[eglantine_br]

Mr Smith certainly appears poised there. I would not wish prison on any one-- but he seems to be making the best of it