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Originally Posted by Curmudgeon
Local officials are in a state of consternation over having Napoleon in New Orleans. They don't think he qualifies as a US prisoner of war, though he was found aboard an enemy vessel. .
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He isn't, he is a foreign dignitary. They don't don't think he qualifies as a US prisoner of war, they know he does not. The closest thing to prisoner he would be is under house arrest to keep him from causing trouble.
He would be in the same position as Trotsky was in Istanbul. He could have been uncommonly inconvenient to the Turkish authorities but they just let him live the life of any other exile.