On the other hand, this week (May 5) will be exactly 200 years since he died, so maybe we could make an exception just this once. People often compare Napoleon ... Atlantic island of St. Helena ...

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Napoleon was staying at Longwood House on the island at that time. He died two years after Munro’s visit. Munro’s interest in Napoleon grew stronger, perhaps, because the former, who also ...

His mother died when he was small ... That would require more work, and according to a story in The Island Packet, Napoleon quoted one of his mother Nellie’s basic fundamentals: “You must ...