and Britain would not support an independent Poland. The affair left Prussia deeply suspicious of any British involvement.

Return to France

While the Allies were distracted, Napoleon solved his problem in characteristic fashion. On 26 February 1815, when the British and French guard ships were absent, his tiny fleet, consisting of the brig ''Inconstant'', four small transports, and two feluccas, slipped away from Portoferraio

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