A handwritten manuscript detailing the daring escape of a British prisoner of Napoleon’s troops – with the flamboyant French uniform in which he disguised himself as he fled – have gone on display at the National Maritime Museum in London after being carefully preserved for more than two centuries by the prisoner’s descendants.
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A French prisoner of war in British captivity would definitely never have managed something like that. First, because the British cannot be corrupted under any circumstances, second, because they are completely devoid of any human weaknesses (called 'humanity', by some), anyway. Quod erat demonstrandum.
Certainly a good a potential movie.