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STATEN ISLAND, NY — A new name quietly slipped into Island history this month. Louis Napoleon (1800-1881) was a black New Yorker who earned his living as an agent on the underground railroad and lived ...
ANOTHER CAESAR—Alfred Neumann—Knopf ($3). Louis Napoleon, nephew of the great Napoleon, spent some 35 years attempting to become Emperor of the French. He finally succeeded. But according to Historian ...
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It seemed Cape Girardeau's historical awareness of African American participation in the Civil War had 150-year amnesia. When local history-keepers were queried, a vague memory of only one Black Civil ...
It began with a coup d’etat and collapsed in military defeat in an unnecessary war. The Second (Bonapartist) Empire lasted longer than the first, 18 years as against 10, but left no sunset memory of ...
PLATTSBURGH — The Lemmon Case is very familiar to Plattsburgh resident Don Papson, founder of the North Country Underground Railroad Historical Association. In 2015, he co-authored “Secret Lives of ...
Napoleon Bonaparte left a trail of death and destruction across Europe, yet in France his name remains synonymous with glory. More than a million people visit his tomb at Les Invalides each year.
Nappy Napoleon will compete in the IVF World Sprint Championships in London. He’s one of six paddlers — three from Hawaii — who are competing in the inaugural Men’s Masters 80s division for V1 (solo) ...