This short books tells the appalling story of the French, Polish, Swiss and Italian conscripts taken prisoner by the British at Baylen and who were abandoned on the deserted island of Cabrera (of the coast of Majorca) for 5 years.
The Prisoners of Cabrera: Napoleon’s forgotten soldiers, 1809-1814
Author(s) : SMITH Denis
- Year of publication :
- 2002
- Place and publisher :
- New York: Four Walls Eight Windows
- Number of pages :
- 224