The French Assassination of Napoleon

In the twilight of napoleon's empire, envoys from france arrived haite in 18 14 to talk about a deal. Suspecting, correctly, french duplicity, the king arrested one of the envoys discovered secret instructions that basically said, try to make allies with the colored so they help us re enslave the blacks. And cristo had the envoy executed. Now, under normal circumstances, this would have been hugely provocative,. But of course, by then, major events had overtaken europe. Napoleon was defeated and re defeated and then sent off to saint helen, to regret ever sending the laclaire expedition to saint domainc.