Napoleon was a scoundrel. Swept to power by a movement made to end monarchies, he made himself a monarch. Later he abandoned the defeated Grande Armee to freeze in the Russian wastes, while he was chauffeured swiftly back to Paris in his fancy coach.
The British eventually poisoned him, of course. 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.
“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.
The son of Napoleon III you mean, the Prince Imperial. He and his mother Eugenie were living in exile in Britain. The young fellow insisted on being a war tourist for his own reasons.
That is a genuine conspiracy theory about the horse. There is way too much randomness in that incident to ascribe a plot.
Thomas Jefferson loved France and had a lot of sympathy for the French Revolution (he witnessed its earliest stages in 1789 and the Federalists in 1800 were terrified he would inaugurate the horrors of the Revolution if he was elected President), but he had nothing but contempt for Bonaparte.