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Napoleon Bonaparte

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The Coroner’s Report June 27, 2026 · Longwood, Saint Helena

The Former Emperor of the French Who Spent His Last Five and a Half Years on a Volcanic South Atlantic Island and Was Possibly Poisoned With Arsenic

Napoleon Bonaparte arrived at Saint Helena on 15 October 1815 as a British prisoner. He spent the next five and a half years at the inland house of Longwood, dictating his memoirs and quarrelling with the British governor Hudson Lowe. He died on 5 May 1821 of what the contemporary autopsy called stomach cancer. The 1961 chemical analysis of his hair found arsenic at approximately 100 times normal levels. The arsenic source has never been securely identified.

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The Cabinet June 27, 2026 · Fort de Joux, Doubs

The Formerly Enslaved Haitian General Who Was the Effective Ruler of Saint-Domingue Until Napoleon Tricked Him Onto a Ship in 1802 and Locked Him in a French Alpine Fortress to Die

Toussaint Louverture led the Saint-Domingue revolution from 1791 to 1801 and was the effective ruler of the colony — the wealthiest slave-economy in the Atlantic — when he wrote a constitution making himself governor for life in July 1801. Napoleon sent a 30,000-man army to depose him in 1802. Toussaint was captured by deceit, taken to the Fort de Joux in the French Jura, and died there of pneumonia on 7 April 1803.

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The Cabinet June 27, 2026 · Waterloo, Belgium

The Single-Day Battle South of Brussels on 18 June 1815 That Ended Napoleon's Hundred Days, Cost Approximately 60,000 Casualties, and Began the Century of British Naval Hegemony

The Duke of Wellington's Anglo-allied army of approximately 68,000 and the Prussian army under Blücher of approximately 50,000 defeated Napoleon's French army of approximately 73,000 at Waterloo on 18 June 1815. Approximately 60,000 men were killed or wounded in about ten hours of combat. Napoleon abdicated four days later and was exiled to Saint Helena.

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The Footnote June 18, 2026 · Notre-Dame Cathedral, Paris

The Pope Who Came to Crown Napoleon and Watched Him Crown Himself

In December 1804, Pope Pius VII traveled from Rome to Paris in winter to crown Napoleon Bonaparte Emperor of the French. Napoleon took the crown from his hands and placed it on his own head. Five years later he had the pope kidnapped.

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