Article on Argentianian corsairs and their attempts to rescue Napoleon

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Todo es Historia, January 2005, No 451
Corsarios Argentinos al rescate de Napoleón (Argentinian corsairs to the rescue of Napoleon), by Emilio Ocampo
Many ships' captains were given corsair licences in 1816 by the United Provinces of Argentina. Some of them dreamed of an extraordinary, if not impossible, enterprise: the rescue of Napoleon Bonaparte from his prison on the island of St Helena.

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