Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated and captured twice, and both times he was exiled rather than killed - first to Elba, then to St. Helena. Particularly after he escaped and returned to power once, why did his captors keep him alive?
by /u/ZnSaucier in /r/AskHistorians
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