In 1894, CaptainAlfredDreyfus was secretly arrested, wrongfully convicted by a court martial of high treason, sentenced to life imprisonment, stripped of his military rank and shipped off in chains to solitary confinement in the sweltering heat of Devil's Island, a French territory off the coast of South America.
She was fought over by both the defenders and accusers of AlfredDreyfus, a Jewish captain wrongly found guilty of selling military secrets to the Germans at the end of the 19th century.