The Evil European

Looks like Napoleon was not poisoned....at least not intensionally. Napoleon died of stomach cancer at the age of 51 while imprisoned by the British on St Helena. He was found to have had arsenic levels 100 times higher than one would expect in your average Frenchman (Corsican if your that why inclined) or European today. However, it looks like EVERYONE had significantly higher arsenic levels in there body at that time.

"The Italian research -- which studied hair samples from various moments in his life which are kept in museums in Italy and France -- showed Napoleon's body did have a high level of arsenic, but that he was already heavily contaminated as a boy.

The scientists used a nuclear reactor to irradiate the hairs to get an accurate measure of the levels of arsenic. (COOL!)

Looking at hairs from several of Napoleon's contemporaries, including his wife and son, they found arsenic levels were generally much higher than is common today."
France24, 13/02/08

I did not know that you could use nuclear reactors for that kind of thing! Anyway, it seems that the glues and dyes used at that point of time where full of lovely heavy metals and the like. I can't believe liberaturdians and right-wingers moan about things like environmental regulation and the like.