1808: The Flight of the Emperor: How a Weak Prince, a Mad Queen, and the British Navy Tricked Napoleon and Changed the New World by Laurentino Gomes

1808: The Flight of the Emperor: How a Weak Prince, a Mad Queen, and the British Navy Tricked Napoleon and Changed the New World

História do Brasil #1

Laurentino Gomes

336 pages • first pub 2007 (editions)

nonfiction history informative medium-paced
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In a time of terror for Europe’s monarchs - imprisoned, exiled, executed - Napoleon’s army marched toward Lisbon. Cornered, Prince Regent João had to make the most fraught decision of his life. Protected by the British Navy, he fled to Brazil with...

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