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Old 05-30-15, 02:03 PM   #793
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1814: With Ol Boney, 'less able ere he saw Elba', The Treaty of Paris, is signed on 30 May 1814; ending the war between France and the Sixth Coalition, part of the Napoleonic Wars, It established peace between France and the United Kingdom, Russia, Austria, and Prussia, and was also signed by Portugal and Sweden. Spain signed later in July. The treaty reduced France to her 1792 borders and restored the independence of her neighbors after Napoleon Bonaparte's defeat. [wiki] Alas! The devil will get loose for a hundred days and a Second Treaty of Paris required after Ol Boney "meets his Waterloo' in 1815. This time, the Little Corporal will be made even less able on St. Helena, a barren rock in the South Atlantic. And it doesn't stop there! Enter into history a brazen English smuggler, double-agent and saboteur: Tom Johnston in consort (possibly) with inventor Robert Fulton's Submarine design: https://allkindsofhistory.wordpress.com/2013/03/09/a-secret-plot-to-rescue-napoleon-by-submarine/ Johnston definitely had a submarine. Clearly one of history's might-have-beens but 'Ol Boney had died beforehand in 1821...fortunately!
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