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Napoléon Ier (1769-1821)

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Napoléon Ier (1769-1821)
+ L.S. "Napol", Paris January 28, 1808, "to the Viceroy" of Italy, Eugène de BEAUHARNAIS| the letter is written by
MÉNEVAL| 1 page in-4.
On the defense of Corfu.
[Ceded to France by Russia, during the peace of Tilsit (1807), the archipelago of the Ionian Islands, whose Corfu, under the name of Republic of the Seven Islands, had seen Franco-Italian troops land in August 1808.] "My son, I ordered bricks & corvette to be sent to Corfu| nothing happened. Send me the state of all the flours, grains, powder, tools you sent there, and let me know the orders you gave to the various bricks and corvettes. My orders are not carried out, & the Minister of War does not account for them. Corfu will be taken, for failure to carry out the prescribed measures, and the Adriatic will suffer forever. I had also ordered the dispatch of gunboats to Corfu| nothing had arrived there by January 1st. - Send from Venice 6 gunboats loaded with gunpowder, cannonballs, biscuit, & carrying ten artillery workers, a dozen 24-place carriages, half a thousand steel, eight or ten thousand iron, and 1,500 pioneer tools. These six gunboats will remain in Corfu to defend it from the roadstead and the communication with the mainland. You will first have them steer them to Ragusa, & from there they will sail further away"...
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