Why didn't the British kill Napoleon off?

Why did they instead give him his own private island during his """exile"""? Was he just a British asset all along?

To avoid another French peasant uprising?

>Was he just a British asset all along?
Yes

You need to keep the whole "Don't kill the kings" concept going on.

Honor
This guys was a literal who that made the world march to the beat of his drums
Everyone feared and hated him, but also respected him

I kinda want to vacation there.

Murdering captured leaders would set a dangerous precedent.

Because the Congress of Vienna didn't want Napoleon turning into some Revolutionary French Martyr and setting off the whole thing all over again.

They did make France execute a shitload of his officers though.

Why do people do people insist on believing governments are always rational?

They did. Arsenic paint

because he was a little qt, i hear the duke of wellington would regularly take trips to st helena to pound his tight boipussy.

Too rich to be killed

Monarchs lost wars pretty often back then
Setting a precedent of killing the enemy monarch was too dangerous

They didn't want to martyr him.

What would justify killing him anyway?
Napoleon had defeated plenty of emperors and kings in the past, and he never even deposed them, let alone executed them

>him his own private island
The place was a damp shithole and his health quickly deteriorated.

Because then winners were actually better than defeated.

didn't wellington steal his mistresses

It was all part of their master plan. They knew Nappy and the French would chimp out again, so they imprisoned him and let him escape on purpose to get an opportunity to put him down and humiliate him for a second and final time.

Captivity is way more humiliating

>enters Paris
>fucks all his mistresses
>takes statue depicted napoleon as Augustus
>uses said statue as hat stand

Wellington was insanely obsessed with the manlet emperor
He had sex with some actress that Napoleon had fucked once, just because he heard she had fucked the manlet
Then he proceeded to gather a massive collection of items related to Napoleon in some way (including a lewd painting Napoleon's sister had made for her brother) and displayed them in his hourse, that basically looked like a museum about Napoleon

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