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your podcast. Welcome to Noble Blood, a production of I Heart Radio and Grim and Mild from Aaron Manky.

Listener discretion advised. With the end of the Napoleonic Wars, the gunpowder and smoke clearing from the battlefields of Central Europe,

there came the rebirth of a tradition,

the grand tour.

It was something of an institution,

the idea that wealthy and aristocratic young men would spend a year or so traveling the

cultural centers of the continent to learn about art and music.

And in the summer of 1814, a young English colonel named Montgomery Maxwell was eager to see the world.

The destinations for a young British boy were fairly well established, Vienna, Venice, Florence.

But like many boys on their grand tours in 1814, Maxwell had added a slightly unusual stop to his itinerary.

A small rocky island, a day's sail from the western coast of Italy in the Mediterranean called Elba.

Maxwell wasn't coming to Elba for the pleasant Mediterranean climate or to investigate

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