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[ST. HELENA -- H.M.S. NORTHUMBERLAND]. Contemporary manuscript account by an unidentified member of the crew of conversations with Napoleon I on board the Northumberland en route to St. Helena. N.p, 1815. 21 pages, 4to, 315 x 200 mm. (12 x 7.7/8 in.), slight browning. An account of Napoleon's discussion of Waterloo, a planned invasion of England, the plague at Jaffa, the state of Russia and Poland, and other events mostly of a military nature.
"On arriving on deck B[onaparte] said to Adm. G.C. [Sir George Cockburn] 'Here I am General at your orders' then asked to be introduced to the Captain with whom he conversed. He ate heartily at dinner - almost of every dish - praised everything & seemed perfectly contented and reconciled to his fate. Talked much of his Russian Campaign, said he needed only to have refreshed his troops at Moscow for 4 or 5 days & then to have marched for Petersburgh, but the destruction of Moscow disconnected all his projects...".
"On arriving on deck B[onaparte] said to Adm. G.C. [Sir George Cockburn] 'Here I am General at your orders' then asked to be introduced to the Captain with whom he conversed. He ate heartily at dinner - almost of every dish - praised everything & seemed perfectly contented and reconciled to his fate. Talked much of his Russian Campaign, said he needed only to have refreshed his troops at Moscow for 4 or 5 days & then to have marched for Petersburgh, but the destruction of Moscow disconnected all his projects...".