Napoleon Bonaparte, first emperor of France and monumental personality of European history, died in disgrace. On October 15, 1815, less than six months after his defeat at Waterloo, the British Navy ferried Napoleon and a small entourage to St. Helena, a bleak, rocky island in the cold South Atlantic. Neither his wife, Marie-Louise of Austria, nor his son, Napoleon II, came with him. It was a sad fate for the man whom the philosopher Hegel called...
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Napoleon Bonaparte, first emperor of France and monumental personality of European history, died in disgrace. On October 15, 1815, less than six months after his defeat at Waterloo, the British Navy ferried Napoleon and a small entourage to St. Helena, a bleak, rocky island in the cold South Atlantic. Neither his wife, Marie-Louise of Austria, nor his son...
When Napoleon lay dying of cancer in exile, on the island of St. Helena, no doctor could see him. The emperor had fired them all. He mistrusted doctors in general, as documents from the Fondation Napoleon make clear, and the seven or more British Navy staff who lived on St. Helena with him he viewed with particular disdain...
Napoleon's fall from grace was one of extreme contrasts. For much of his adult life, he had been on an upward trajectory until he became emperor, a position through which he spread the secular and meritocratic ideals that deposed the preceding Bourbon monarchy. With his first exile, he went from the ruler of Europe to emperor of the small island...
Ready to explore one of France's most famous paths? Start at the route traveled by one of the most notable French leaders ever. Napoleon Bonaparte was born in 1769 on Corsica, an island off the coast of Italy. When he came of age, he joined the French military, and by the end of the 17th century he had become a respected military brigadier general...
History has a funny way of repeating itself, especially when the people repeating it aren't exactly telling the full story. Indeed, many of the clean, easy, wholesome "facts" you learned in history class would earn you a big fat F in the decades-long class that is Real Life. Here are a few historical lies that will make you rethink your entire education...
