[mojito]

Anyone with an interest and the opportunity might think about seeing what sounds like a very interesting exhibition.

[cripplecreek]

Napoleon must have been well respected in the USA at one time. There are several towns named Napoleon across America. I live a few miles from Napoleon Michigan.

[SunkenCiv]

related topic:

The Illustrious Dead:
The Terrifying Story of How Typhus Killed Napoleon’s Greatest Army
Amazon.com | Unknown | Unknown
Posted on 05/31/2009 1:03:31 PM PDT by decimon
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2261732/posts

[SunkenCiv]

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[SunkenCiv]

Should have pinged you.

[Sherman Logan]

The most obvious connection is Napoleon's decision as First Consul of France to sell the fledgling U.S. a sprawling piece of real estate -- the 1803 Louisiana Purchase, a bargain transaction that assured America's westward expansion.

He sold it only because the massive army he had targetted at Louisiana was just about destroyed in their supposedly preparatory reconquest of Haiti. You can make a decent case that the Haitian revolutionaries and mosquitoes kept America from a war with France.

Why this brilliant strategist was getting involved in adventures on the other side of an ocean utterly controlled by the Royal Navy is entirely another questoin.