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| | La Maddalena, February 1793 |
 | | Great Britain was in fact fully interested to maintain an indirect control over Sardinia, being in contact with the corsican independentist led by old local hero Pasquale Paoli. |
 | | In those days, a young (not yet 24 years old) Lieutenant Colonel, Napoleone di Buonaparte (at the Italian way, as he'll change his name in Bonaparte in 1796, at the beginning of the first Campaign of Italy) was in Corse, his birthland, commanding two companies of Corsican volunteers of the Guard. |
 | | A second, minor, expedition had to attack and invade the Island of La Maddalena, the biggest island of the archipelago between Sardinia and Corse. |
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