De Gaulle transferred Ben Bella to Napoleon’s island of exile

Evidence

This too was unsuccessful, though as part of his general amnesty measures on assuming the presidency in January 1959 de Gaulle ordered the prisoners transferred to the slightly more comfortable surroundings of the île d’Aix, the fortress isle in the Bay of Biscay where Napoleon had passed his last days on French soil in July 1815 before being transported to his ultimate exile aboard H.M.S. Bellerophon. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 972

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Ben Bella spent most of his life in prisons, French and Algerian; Suez and the Ben Bella affair destroyed Mollet’s Algerian policy. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 497; De Gaulle joked that exiled French monarchs were all welcomed in England — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1139 (+1 more)

Related

• Ben Bella spent most of his life in prisons, French and Algerian (similarity 0.95)
• De Gaulle joked that exiled French monarchs were all welcomed in England (similarity 0.82)
• Suez and the Ben Bella affair destroyed Mollet’s Algerian policy. (similarity 0.82)
• Boumedienne seized power from Ben Bella in a 1965 army coup. (similarity 0.82)
• The Ben Bella hijacking sealed off any negotiated end to the war. (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Boumedienne seized power from Ben Bella in a 1965 army coup. #expands (0.70) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1641
• De Gaulle joked that exiled French monarchs were all welcomed in England #responds-to (0.30) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1139