Napoleonic Era
An Illiterate Shepherd Boy Hid Holland's Most Dangerous Document
A fourteen-year-old Dutch boy, acting on pure desperation in 1795, preserved one of history's most politically inconvenient documents—and changed what 'treason' meant forever.
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