Word: napoleon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gilded African." In Paris, Napoleon Bonaparte scoffed at the "First of the Blacks" as a "gilded African," and sent 90 ships and 40,000 veterans of the Egyptian campaign to retake Saint-Domingue. By treachery, the French captured Toussaint and shipped him off to France to die in a moutain prison. But in the end, black troops and yellow fever smashed the French for good...
...shoes slid on the polished floor. That was last October. John was not the ballroom type. He was a plump, grey-haired grass widower, and the president of two unromantic family businesses: Winter Bros. Stamping Co. (auto parts) of Detroit and Winter Pressed Steel Co. (tractor parts) of Napoleon, Ohio. But John was dogged. He started right out dancing-and he danced ten hours...
Half an hour later, an Italian fisherman cruising off the island of Elba (where Napoleon was once a prisoner) marked the Comet's presence in the sky overhead. "I heard a roar," he said, "very high. Then there was a series of blasts. The next thing I saw was a column of smoke plunging straight down into...
...real battle, 400,000 Haitian slaves had risen against their 40,000 French masters and beaten them in fighting so bloody that the population dropped by 150,000. The first rebel leader, an ex-slave himself, was Toussaint Louverture. To regain the colony, rich in sugar and indigo, Napoleon sent 70 ships and 40,000 men against Toussaint, and captured him. Toussaint died in prison in France. It fell to a successor, General Jean-Jacques Dessalines, the crafty "Tiger," to destroy the French...
With a few exceptions, the top-selling novels of 1953 were set in the long ago and far away. Danish Novelist Annemarie Selinko's Désirée, a sentimental historical about the adventures of an early mistress of Napoleon, fought it out for first place for several months with a holdover from last year, Thomas Costain's The Silver Chalice. At the end, both were overhauled by a new edition of Lloyd Douglas' The Robe, which, boosted by the movie, recovered the top place on the list that it first won in 1943. With similar...