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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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William Keegan

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In July 1817, Lord Amherst, the leader of a British delegation to China, stopped on his return journey at Saint Helena and met the exiled Napoleon Bonaparte.

Napoleon had seldom been out of the news, but Amherst himself was also in the news for having ­pointedly refused to kowtow when having an audience with the Chinese emperor.

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