[HN Gopher] Before he wrote a thesaurus, Roget had to escape Nap...
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       Before he wrote a thesaurus, Roget had to escape Napoleon's dragnet
        
       Author : Petiver
       Score  : 37 points
       Date   : 2021-04-25 02:35 UTC (20 hours ago)
        
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       | 1cvmask wrote:
       | The dangers of travel when your country declares war on the
       | country/territory you are in:
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       | King George III lamented the French ruler's "restless
       | disposition," and on May 18--a little more than one year after
       | the armistice--Britain declared war on France.
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       | In retribution, Bonaparte issued a decree that all British
       | citizens in French territory over the age of 18 be held as
       | prisoners of war--including those living in Geneva, an
       | independent city-state that Napoleon had annexed. Roget was
       | stunned. "The measure was so unprecedented and so atrocious as to
       | appear destitute of all foundation," he wrote.
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       | Unfortunately this is type of travel misfortune has occurred to
       | so many.
        
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