Napoleon: An Extraordinary Rendition (2010)

> Napoleon’s misconception was his belief that if he once set foot on a British ship he not only secured ‘the protection of the law of Britain’

Interesting. Britain has parliamentary sovereignty, so there's no protection from parliament _at all_ under the law (then and now), and parliament are well within their rights to pass a bill of attainder which is a new law essentially punishing a specific person or group.

In this case, he was seeking protection from the government on the (surprisingly reasonable!) basis that parliament itself might be sufficiently sympathetic to him to not simply lop off his head.

I think the prussians would have been wrong to execute Napoleon. Things we ascribe to modern warcrimes failures or successes would have been admitted into the room a century earlier, had they done this.

be careful where your finger points because 4 of them may point back at yourself.

"Disturbance of the peace" indeed

published 2010