The Story of Napoleon
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Fort Mulgrave, called by its besiegers the little Gibraltar, was the key of the position, for it commanded the inner harbour, and before dawn on the morning of the 17th December three columns of soldiers set out to reduce it. On the 19th, Lord Hood in the Victory weighed anchor, and the British fleet left the scene of disaster with over 14,000 of the terror-stricken inhabitants on board.
The humorous lines in imitation of The House that Jack Built speak of Sir Arthur, whose Valour and skill began so well but ended so ill, who beat the French who took the Gold that lay in the City of Lisbon. The text says Napoleon had completed his History of Corsica, and on the disgrace of Marbeuf, Bishop of Sens, to whom he had hoped to dedicate it, decided to ask Paoli to become his patron. The acknowledgment of the precious manuscript was a rebuff couched in courteous terms.
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- Harold Wheeler
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- 208
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