NAPOLEON Bonaparte wasn’t murdered. He was killed by his overenthusiastic doctors, according to a study of records from the emperor’s final weeks.
Controversy over Napoleon’s death in exile on the island of St Helena has been raging for more than half a century. Most historians accept the official version: that he died from stomach cancer. This was the verdict of an autopsy by his personal physician, Francesco Antommarchi, which was observed by five English doctors. What’s more, Napoleon’s father had died of the same disease.
The most colourful version of events is that the emperor was murdered by his confidant…
