French rule in the Ionian Islands days of close blockade and bombardment, the French surrendered on 17 November. Ushakov allowed 20 French officers to depart for France immediately, but the rest were sent to captivity in Constantinople. With the fall of Lefkada, Corfu remained as the last bastion of French control in the Ionian Islands. There too, the anti-French and pro-Russian sentiment had been gaining ground, and the exhortations of commissioner-general Dubois largely failed to have an impact. French forces on the island, augmented by the garrisons of Ithaca and Parga, amounted to 1,500 infantry and some 300 artillerymen, as well as 8 naval vessels. To
Island Beneath the Sea Island Beneath the Sea Island Beneath the Sea () is a 2009 novel by Chilean author Isabel Allende. It was first published in the United States by HarperCollins. The book was issued in 2009 in Spanish as "La Isla Bajo el Mar", and was translated into English by Margaret Sayers Peden, who has translated all (except the first) of Allende's books into English. The story is set during the Haitian Revolution of Toussaint Louverture. The story opens on the island of Saint-Domingue (current day La Hispaniola) in the late 18th century. Zarite (known as Tete) is the daughter of an