Download or read book The Surrender of Napoleon written by Frederick Lewis Maitland and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-08-25 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On July 15th, 1815, after being defeated at Waterloo and deposed in Paris, the former Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte presented himself to Captain Frederick Maitland, commander of HMS Bellerophon, which was blockading the exit from Rochefort on the French Atlantic coast. This peaceful surrender precipitated one of the most complex and unresolved issues in British law and politics. In modern parlance, the British were faced with the prospect of making Napoleon the subject of 'extraordinary rendition'.