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Portland Gazette, And Maine Advertiser
Portland, Cumberland County, Maine
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In a reply dated Paris, Aug. 18, 1811, Bonaparte assures deputies from the Hanoverian Islands that he will never abandon French territories in India, America, the Mediterranean, or elsewhere seized by the enemy due to naval superiority, vowing their return via war or peace stipulations.
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Extract from Bonaparte's reply to the Deputies from the Hanoverian Islands,
Paris Aug. 18, 1811.
"I will never abandon the Islands which the superiority of the enemy by sea has placed in their power. In India, in America, in the Mediterranean, every thing that is and has been French, shall always be so. Conquered by the enemy, by the vicissitudes of war, they shall return into the Empire by the other events of the war, or by the stipulations of peace. I should always consider it as an eternal blot upon my reign, if I ever sanctioned the abandonment of a single Frenchman."
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Hanoverian Islands
Event Date
Aug. 18, 1811
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vow to reclaim conquered french territories through war events or peace stipulations; refusal to abandon any frenchman.
Event Details
Bonaparte's reply to deputies pledges never to abandon islands held by the enemy due to sea superiority and asserts that all French possessions in India, America, and the Mediterranean will remain French, returning to the Empire via war or peace.