In a time of terror for Europe s monarchs--imprisoned, exiled, executed--Napoleon s army marched toward Lisbon.
Cornered, Prince Regent Jo\u00e3o had to make the most fraught decision of his life.
Protected by the British Navy, he fled to Brazil.
Lyons Press 1808: the flight of the emperor: how a weak prince, a mad queen, and the british navy tricked napoleon and changed the new world, hardcover/laurentino gomes
