Cabrera. How many died?
Cabrera. How many died? And where are the bodies?
Translator: Tom Corkett Editor: Zahira Ransome Senior Editor: Mark Mellor
Napoleonica
Pages 93 to 164
In 1809, the troops who had been captured as prisoners of war at Bailén in July 1808, and then held in hulks in Cádiz (itself a violation of the terms of the capitulation treaty signed at Andújar), were exiled to the Balearic Islands. Ostensibly for quarantine reasons, they were offloaded on the uninhabited island of Cabrera, near Mallorca. The prison island subsequently housed several other contingents of French prisoners taken during the Spanish struggle for independence. The prisoners of war who survived were freed in May 1814 and repatriated to France over the following weeks....
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