[CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC]

a great place for Napoleon to spend his later year

Many years ago I read of how some modern medical researchers got ahold of a lock of his hair that had been snipped off when he died. They found very high levels of arsenic and theorized that someone among his British captors had slowly poisoned him to death.

[Squantos]

I believe there were a lot of medicinal and cosmetic sources of that also, he may have cured his vanity alone too....

[Caipirabob]

Many years ago I read of how some modern medical researchers got ahold of a lock of his hair that had been snipped off when he died. They found very high levels of arsenic and theorized that someone among his British captors had slowly poisoned him to death.

In truth, from what I've learned, the slow poisoning may account for his change in demeanor upon return from his first exile. That the British would have continued the process following his latter defeat wouldn't surprise me.

Although I think some cheap lead and gunpowder following the first incarceration would have sufficed. It'd work for Saddam, too.

[agere_contra]

They're pretty sure that Napoleon was poisoned by a FRENCHMAN in his entourage, acting as an agent for the Bourbons.