IN THE collection of the Royal Armouries are a number of Napoleon-related firearms, of which the subject of this article is one. It is an elaborately decorated percussion double-barrelled shotgun that commemorates the return of Napoleon’s body to France in 1840 and pays homage to his life and legacy.
After his final defeat at the Battle of Waterloo, Napoleon was exiled to the small island of St Helena in the South Atlantic, where he
