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Lord William Bentinck and the British Occupation of Sicily 1811-1814 (Paperback)
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Lord William Bentinck and the British Occupation of Sicily 1811-1814 (Paperback)
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During the Napoleonic Wars, Sicily was of some tactical importance,
and a British garrison was established there in 1806. For the next
five years domestic and diplomatic affairs became increasingly
complicated, and at last, in 1811, Lord William Bentinck was sent
out to restore order. Dr Rosselli's account of his unsuccessful
mission is a story of strange people and strange events. The main
characters in the drama are colourful enough: King Ferdinand, lazy,
irresponsible and likely to withdraw at the sign of trouble to his
shooting lodge at La Ficuzza, leaving the affairs of state in the
hands of his son; Queen Maria-Carolina, devoid of all common sense,
enfeebled by opium and full of violent distrust of British
interference; Prince Francis, a broken reed, weak-willed,
vacillating, afraid of his parents, as much as of Bentinck; and the
politicians of Palermo, occasionally scheming and ambitious, but
more often too naive to be reliable.
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