Cabrera, Balearic Islands
…during the mid-16th century, from 1530 until the Battle of Lepanto in 1571. Cabrera was used to house French prisoners of war following the 1808 Battle of Bailén. Of the 9,000 sent to Cabrera during the war, only 3,600 remained to be repatriated at its end in 1814, though 876 officers and sergeants were taken…