Napoleon in fact surrendered to the British man-of-war Bellerophon (known as the Billy Ruffian to its crew), after realising that the possibility of escape through the British sea blockade was remote.
On being transported back to the UK, en route to St Helena and exile, crowds turned out every day to view the former Emperor's daily walk on deck.
See previous post covering his death on St Helena in 1821.
The history of the Bellerophon is desribed in the gripping ship's biography "Billy Ruffian" by David Cordingly.
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