Napoleonic Wargame Club (NWC)

Interesting news article (Note, never thought he was myself, but interesting in any case)

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080212/lf_ ... apoleon_dc

Feldmarschall Freiherr Gary McClellan
Generalissimus Imperial Austrian Army
Portner Grenadier Bn
Allied Coalition C-in-C

Does this mean he was still poisoned just not by the British but by the environment? Surely high levels of arsenic are not conducive to good health.

It is far more likely that he was poisoned by a Frenchman in the Employ of the newly restored monarchy...


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Commanding L'Armee du Rhin
Grande Duc de Piave et Comte de Beauvais
Commanding the Division de Cavalerie de la Moyenne Garde
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John, didn't you read the article linked?

It's clear that the arsenic levels in Napoleon's blood grew slowly over the course of his entire life. As Drex says, he was poisoned by his environoment. Certainly not healthy for anyone, including Napoleon, but it points away from someone intentionlly poisoning him.

Of course, all of our bodies have built up a certain level of toxins we really don't want in it, which is what seems to have happened in this case.


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<br />It is far more likely that he was poisoned by a Frenchman in the Employ of the newly restored monarchy...


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NWC President</center>
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Feldmarschall Freiherr Gary McClellan
Generalissimus Imperial Austrian Army
Portner Grenadier Bn
Allied Coalition C-in-C

Throw in chronic fatigue from years of doing the work of 10 people and you become acutely vunerable to your environment!
Oh and gidday Gary!

Salute!



Colonel Colin Knox,
Baron de l'Empire
2e Regiment Gardes d'Honneur
La Jeune Garde
CO. 1er Brigade, III Division Cavalerie Legere, III Corps Armee du Nord
http://www.aspire.co.nz/colinknoxnwc.htm

(takes a quick check of his toxin level - finds traces of arsenic) Must be the Boise water! [:D]

Honest, we get radioactive material from Nevada! [:p]

Tasty stuff.

Lieutenant Colonel Bill Peters
Armee du Rhin - V Corps, Cavalerie du V Corps, 20ème légère Brigade de Cavalerie, 13ème Hussar Regiment
HPS Napoleonic Scenario Designer (Eckmuhl, Wagram, Jena-Auerstaedt and ... more to come)

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... strangled at birth mayhap?

[;)][;)]

Kolonel Sellick Davies,
III Bataillon Nassau-Usingen,
2nd Bde,

Naw, Corsicans never strangle their own babies. Just their neighbors. [;)]

Lieutenant Colonel Bill Peters
Armee du Rhin - V Corps, Cavalerie du V Corps, 20ème légère Brigade de Cavalerie, 13ème Hussar Regiment
HPS Napoleonic Scenario Designer (Eckmuhl, Wagram, Jena-Auerstaedt and ... more to come)

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