GENERAL HISTORY. 
portance, may deserve recording, 
on account of the interest attach- 
ed to that island when the resi- 
dence of Buonaparte. A body of 
Tuscan troops landed upon it on 
July 30th, and invested Porto 
Ferrajo, the commandant of which 
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at first asked for a suspension of 
arms in order to treat of a sur- 
render, but this not being granted, 
a convention was entered into, 
in consequence ofwhich the Tus- 
cans took possession of all the 
military posts of the island. 
