[NormsRevenge]

Reproduction of a portrait of Napoleon from 1804. Nearly 186 years later, a scientific study has cleared Britain of the calumny that it murdered Napoleon, declaring instead that l'empereur was felled by stomach cancer -- and French military food was a possible cause.(AFP/File)

[onyx]

Another whatever....lol

[Democratshavenobrains]

Bush's fault?

[RetSignman]

Well, that changes everything...well, not everything but something...ok..ok..nothing.

[buffyt]

We visited his tomb in 1980.
Very impressive site. And the stomach cancer news is very interesting.
http://preethasuresh.tripod.com/paris_napolean2.jpg

[LonePalm]

Until WWII, military food was a bigger oxymoron than Military Intelligence.

FWIW - Naval Intelligence has always been redundant.

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[SunkenCiv]

A Blast from the Past.

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[ozzymandus]

Not what The History Channel said last night. And obviously, the brits would deny poisioning Nappy, although the History Channel's theory was that one of his fellow frogs done it.