Word: napoleonism
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Died. Peter Rudak, 136, claimant (with documentary proof) of military service 120 years ago in the Russian Army fighting against Napoleon; in Pitchania, Union of Socialist Soviet Republics...
...Decker, of Alfred Decker & Cohn, wholesale clothiers; F. G. Peabody of Cluett-Peabody & Co. (collars); I. L. Marienthal, of the Modern Belt Co.; 0. Koerner, of Hansen Gloves; B. J. Shnur, of P. Becker & Co., trunk and bag makers. The head of Apparel-Manufacturers' Mart Building Corporation is Napoleon Picard, who organized the Insurance Exchange, in Chicago. Architect Ahlschlager is vice president; A. R. Clas is secretary and treasurer...
...railroad has climbed and pierced through. Roadways wind interminably up the Pyrenees and over passes, none lower than 5,000 feet; but these trails are more fit for mountain goats than motorcycles and quite impracticable for the average motor car or truck. The late Emperor of the French, Napoleon...
...slaves of Haiti, in all consistency, revolted against their masters-rich Creoles, and supercilious whites. A slave born of slave parents, Pierre-Dominique Toussaint L'Ouverture, First of the Blacks, established in 1801 an independent constitution. He was well under way with a promising period of reconstruction when Napoleon took time to consider his refractory colonies. A swift intelligent military campaign subdued Toussaint's able generals. Toussaint himself was taken unscrupulously by ruse, and imprisoned in France-to be mourned in lines by Wordsworth...
Tropical fever was meanwhile ravaging French troops, and, Napoleon being engrossed by troubles at home, Toussaint's best general was able to declare independence. Only 13 years before, all the land and 90% of the population was owned by a small oligarchy of whites. Now no white owned land, and all the havocked property passed to ex-slaves. Making himself emperor in the grand manner, Jean Jacques Dessalines governed these ignorants by the universally understood authority of force, but he was murdered for brutal abuse of power. Among his simultaneous successors was black King Christophe, most picturesque of Haitians...