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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Well, the French did it too...
https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8452227d/f122.item
🙂