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TOUR DE CAPITELLO
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The Tour de Capitello stands on the coast at the mouth of the Prunelli river, facing the Bay of Ajaccio at the northern entrance to Porticcio. This round tower is 11m high, with a circumference of 42m at its base. It is larger than most of the other towers in the region and has a fine architectural style. The tower once witnessed an important event in the life of Napoleon Bonaparte. In 1793, an insurrection of Pascal Paoli's followers took place, sparked off by the Sardinian affair in which Paoli was deprived of his command by the Convention, having been betrayed by the intervention of Lucien Bonaparte, brother of Napoleon. Now considered to be ""enemies of Paoli"", the Bonaparte were forced to take refuge in Les Milelli, as the ""Casa Buonaparte"" had been plundered. Napoleon, a young officer at the time, succeeded in persuading the representatives of the Republic to take the town. A fleet was sent to the Bay of Ajaccio and Napoleon moved into the tower with fifty men, with the intention of attacking the town by land. The tower was besieged and the plan failed, but Napoleon nonetheless managed to reach the fleet and rescue his family from near the tower. From here, they fled to Calvi, then Toulon. Napoleon would not see Corsica again until his return from Egypt.
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