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Napoleon Bonaparte had ties to two American presidents
On the bicentennial anniversary of Napoleon Bonaparte’s death early in May, the commemoration of his passing received minimal ...
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Lauded and loathed: Why the French still can't get enough of Napoleon — 200 years after his death
Take Napoleon Bonaparte, who died exactly 200 years ago ... great enterprise," Colley writes in her new book The Gun, the Ship and the Pen. But the French seemingly can't get enough of the dead ...
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France's first black general once fought a cavalry squadron by himself — and emerged unscathed
The fight took place during Napoleon Bonaparte's Italian Campaign of 1796-1797. Dumas, who was also the father of the famed author, Alexandre Dumas, was the only four-star general of an all-white ...