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Who befriends a fallen emperor? In the spring of 1817, Dr John Stokoe, a surgeon, set out to sail on the Conqueror, with Admiral Sir Robert Plampin. Their destination was to be St. Helena, a desolate island situated between Africa and America. On this Island lived the exiled Napoleon Bonaparte. A man who had once commanded vast armies, ruled the French Empire and been the thorn in Britain's side for twenty years. Napoleon had been exiled to St. Helena following his defeat at the Battle of Waterloo. n arrival at St. Helena's, Dr Stokoe writes about his initial thoughts of Napoleon, based on stories he'd heard. Twenty years as the enemy had cast Napoleon firmly as the villain in British public opinion. But Dr Stokoe was not a man to judge based on stories. Dr Stokoe's own encounters with Napoleon on St. Helena, capture an altogether different Napoleon. Dr Stokoe was nearly on friendly terms with Napoleon. This was a friendship that was not approved of. Due to Napoleon's terms on the island, Admiral Plampin did not accept the matter of a potential favourable relationship developing between their surgeon and Napoleon. With tensions on St Helena building, Napoleon's health began to fail. The seriousness of the Emperor's ailment was obvious to those he encountered. On the orders of Sir Hudson Lowe, a hospital inspector was instructed to attend. Napoleon refused to see him. Following a sudden and violent attack of Napoelon's , Dr Stokoe, as the only physician available, was called upon. Napoleon himself had some input into the demands and conditions under which Dr Stokoe would attend to his health. Dr Stokoe accepted with the Governor's and Admiral's consent. Dr Stokoe's memoirs present the series of events that unfolded as he attended to the dying Napoleon. An account that not many were close enough to articulate. Dr John Stokoe (1775-1852)was born in Durham. At the age of twenty, he joined the Royal Navy as a Surgeon's Mate. His early attachments included the Monarch, Acosta and the Thunderer. His memoirs were found in the possession of his great-grand-niece, Miss Edith Stokoe. Paul Fr�meaux (b.1859) was a French historian. Edith S Stokoe (1861-1915) was Dr Stokoe's great-grand-niece. She lived in London.

Stokoe's memoirs is afascinating account of Napoleon's exiled years at St. Helena.

Winner of the 2009 Literary Award, sponsored by the International Napoleonic Society/La Societe Napoleonienne Internationale of Montreal, Quebec's Literary Committee Napoleon's last campaign didn't end at Waterloo. After that fateful day on June 1815, hundreds if not thousands of veterans of Napoleon's army emigrated to America. Many went farther south and joined the rebels fighting for independence in the Spanish colonies, from Mexico to Buenos Aires. The Bonapartists roiled the Western World as they sought fortune, fame, and glory in the expanding United States and in the tumultuous Spanish Americas suffering from repression and civil disorder, and even in the states of Europe. They were joined by adventurers from other nations who shared their admiration for the fallen emperor. This is the first full-length examination of the Bonapartists who emigrated from France after Napoleon's defeat and exile, who formed a loose confederation with adventurers and romantics, and who contemplated a new empire in the Western Hemisphere. The scheme had the support and encouragement of the fallen emperor himself and his brother Joseph, former King of Spain, who lived in exile in the United States. Emilio Ocampo has examined archives on three continents and sources in several languages to ferret out the evidence--a monumental task considering that conspirators tried to leave no evidence of their plans, and that a failed plot, like failure in general, leaves few claimants. Ocampo reinterprets Latin American independence as an international event that drew in all the major powers. By illuminating the complex connections between the shattered France of the Bourbon restoration; an England threatened by radical politician inspired by the French Revolution; Napoleon in exile at St. Helena; the United States, where home-grown adventurers and French émigrés alike saw opportunity; and the collapsing Spanish colonial empire, where revolutionaries were allying themselves with the veterans of Napoleon's Grande Armée, Ocampo brings together two bodies of scholarship: Napoleonic history and Latin American independence. He does so by tracing the steps of four of the most fascinating characters of the era: two Britons disaffected with their own government--Lord Thomas Cochrane and Sir Robert Wilson--and two former generals of Napolean's army named Charles Lallemand and Michel Brayer. The Emperor's Last Campaign is a fascinating story, well told, and peopled with all sorts of improbable characters and schemes that perhaps just missed coming to full fruition but that in the process contributed to one of the most important events of the nineteenth century: the breakdown of the Spanish empire in America and the rise of the United States as a world power.