Death of a French prince
Sep 28, 2020
2 minutes
By Mike Burgess.
PINTEREST.NZ
When Napoléon Eugène Louis Jean Joseph Bonaparte’s naked body was found by a British relief party in Zululand on 2 June 1879, it had 17 assegai wounds in it. The reasons for the 23-year-old’s violent death in Africa can be traced to the fall of the Second French Empire and to poor military decisions on the day
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