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Juarez and Maximilian. History mentions one Maximilian, a Habsburg, appointed Emperor of Mexico by Napoleon Bonaparte; records a successful revolution led by Juarez, the untimely defection of Napoleon's troops, execution of Maximilian. More colorful chronicles relate that Maximilian's proud empress, failing to obtain aid from royal kin in Europe, became insane, another victim of the "curse of the Habsburgs," which has bloodied every generation of that ill-starred line with murder and violence...
...following article, reprinted from the "Boston Herald", tells how Lewis devised this defense, aided by Napoleon's strategy...
...highway police, who had kept an airplane with a gilded snout, a private yacht on Buckeye Lake, who had given parties modeled on those of the later Caesars, who had said-his thin voice rising to a shriek in a drunken and lascivious party-"I am the counterpart of Napoleon, the master mind of all the world. Drink her down." He was dealing with a man who had embodied in his person most of the political power of Indiana, and who was then serving a life sentence in Michigan City Prison for the rape and murder of a girl...
Beethoven, living in Vienna, was a profound admirer of the republican principles of the French Revolution, and in 1804 he wrote in honor of Napoleon the majestic symphony known as the "Eroica". The work was completed just at the time of Napoleon's coronation...
...corpuscles. In California where playboys dent the bars with their nuggets, he meets the "doctor- lawyer-journalist-soldier -states-man," William Walker, the original "manifest destiny" man, who believes that "America must round her territories by the sea," that he must help her by becoming the Napoleon of Nicaragua. Peter drinks deep of destiny, joins him. On the squalid, turbulent breast of Central America, they achieve momentary success. There is all the usual panoply of historical romance: the storming of ancient citadels, the intrigue of Bourbon-breath'd henchmen, the moneyed powers, the lovely Senorita de Avila who dies...