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FadeTheButcher
07-23-2004, 12:01 PM
Interesting.

http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99996187

Napoleon Bonaparte was not murdered, but was killed by his overenthusiastic doctors, according to a study of records from the emperor's final weeks.

Controversy over Napoleon's death in exile on the island of St Helena has been raging for more than half a century. Most historians accept the official version: that he died from stomach cancer.

This was the verdict of an autopsy by his personal physician, Francesco Antommarchi, which was observed by five English doctors. What is more, Napoleon's father had died of the same disease. . .

Dr. Brandt
07-23-2004, 01:46 PM
Interesting.

http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99996187

They examined his hair, and found an unusual amount of Arsenic in it. He was probably poisoned by the Brits.

Perun
07-23-2004, 03:34 PM
Theres a book about this, I dont know the title off hand.

cerberus
07-23-2004, 05:13 PM
Can't remember the quote exactly but he said something like " open my body after my death and you will find poison".
Will follow up on NS. later , thanks Fade.

Hiel
07-24-2004, 12:17 AM
Is this about the historical Napoleon, or that guy in a mental asylum who thinks he's Napoleon Bonaparte?

otto_von_bismarck
07-24-2004, 12:19 AM
I read an article about this, made a pretty convincing case he was poisoned.

Pompey
07-25-2004, 02:15 AM
He was probably poisoned by the Brits.

If true, its a dishonorable act of merciless pirates and villains.