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The Bonapartes in America ... Illustrated

Napoleon Bonaparte was ruling France in 1803 when the United States made the Louisiana Purchase. Napoleon's youngest brother, Jerome, married a Baltimore girl while visiting the United States. Joseph Napoleon (who had been King of Spain under Napoleon Bonaparte) lived in New Jersey for 19 years. Another brother, Lucien, was captured in 1811 by the British navy while en route to the United States, and after Waterloo tried unsuccessfully to follow Joseph to New Jersey. Several of Napoleon's nieces and nephews came to America, and "Napoleon III was in exile in New York in 1837 after his ill-fated attempt at Strasbourg ... [and] it was in the United States, too, that the principal plots were devised for the release of Napoleon from St. Helena." (Foreword).

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