Napoleon Bonaparte: The Later Years

The later life, demise and death of France's greatest emperor, Napoleon Bonaparte

This famous emperor was a man of many achievements and in a myriad of ways was a man of vision, way ahead of his times. In addition to brilliant and innovative military tactics, his non-military accomplishments, included the establishment of the Napoleonic Code, the break down of feudalism via property ownership and even the discovery of a geometric theorem involving equilateral triangles (although still in dispute by mathematical scholars). Did you know, for example, that Napoleon wished to enact a law that would enable only those lawyers who have won cases to receive fees?

He is, perhaps, aptly criticized for the terrible loss of human life incurred from his undisputed military record of 17 years of wars, not to mention the bankruptcy of France and the loss of all of her overseas colonies.

Still, the mystique remains and even his death is shrouded in mystery.

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