The Surrender of Napoleon: Being the Narrative of the Surrender of Buonaparte, and of His Residence on Board H. M.S. Bellerophon, With a Detail of the ... The 24th of May and the 8th of Augus
                        
                     
                                                         
                
                    The Surrender of Napoleon: Being the Narrative of the Surrender of Buonaparte, and of His Residence on Board H. M.S. Bellerophon, With a Detail of the ... The 24th of May and the 8th of Augus
                                            
                            by Frederick Lewis Maitland
                            
                                17 Jan, 2019                            
                            
                         
                                        
                                                                        "You are publishing a great and interesting national document.... The whole narrative is as fine, manly, and explicit an account as ever was given of so interesting a transaction." So wrote Sir Walter Scott to Captain Maitland after reading the manus
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                                                "You are publishing a great and interesting national document.... The whole narrative is as fine, manly, and explicit an account as ever was given of so interesting a transaction." So wrote Sir Walter Scott to Captain Maitland after reading the manuscript of his Narrative of the Surrender of Buonaparte. It is undoubtedly a historical document of the first importance, not only as a record of "words by an eyewitness" of an ever-memorable event, but as a vindication of the good faith of the British Government in its conduct towards Napoleon. Less