Having dominated Europe and been beaten back, Napoleon was finally defeated at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. The facts - to the extent historians can agree on them - are these: How does one come to such a conclusion about a man who has been dead for so long? The answer is good old-fashioned detective work. His cancer was so advanced that even if somebody could have smuggled him out, he was in such terrible shape that he would have died very quickly.'
'It's become fashionable to ask if the course of history would have been changed if he had somehow escaped his exile, gone back to Paris, perhaps reconquered France,' said Genta. Napoleon's doctor got it right the first time: The defeated emperor died of advanced gastric cancer. Robert Genta of Southwestern Medical Center at the University of Texas in Dallas. They noted that when his body was unearthed in 1840, it was remarkably well-preserved. They found locks of his hair, which, they said, contained toxic levels of arsenic. His personal physician reported on his death certificate that Napoleon died of stomach cancer, but scientists, historians and enthusiasts have questioned the conclusion repeatedly over the last two centuries. 17, 2007— - Napoleon Bonaparte died in exile in 1821.
