The Emperor on board the screw steam-yacht "La Reine Hortense", leaving the harbour, 1854. Napoleon Bonaparte III at Calais as French and British troops depart for the Crimean War. '...as the Emperor stood on the deck of the round-house of the yacht in which he visited the fleet, he was greeted with frequent manifestations of French soldier rose, and, lifting a brimming glass aloft, shouted "Victoria!" The English sailors answered with cries of " Vive l'Empereur! " and a general fraternisation was the result'. From "Illustrated London News",
The Emperor on board the screw steam-yacht "La Reine Hortense", leaving the harbour, 1854. Napoleon Bonaparte III at Calais as French and British troops depart for the Crimean War. '...as the Emperor stood on the deck of the round-house of the yacht in which he visited the fleet, he was greeted with frequent manifestations of French soldier rose, and, lifting a brimming glass aloft, shouted "Victoria!" The English sailors answered with cries of " Vive l'Empereur! " and a general fraternisation was the result'. From "Illustrated London News", 1854.
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