“And years later, somehow Napoleon III was given a particularly skittish horse to ride while out with a small British patrol in Natal. The rest of the party escaped. His horse escaped. He didn’t.”
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Napoleon III died in his bed while in exile in Chislehurst, Kent, England on January 9, 1873. His son was killed while in the British Army fighting the Zulus in 1879.
Ouch! That was boneheaded of me. But yeah.