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Napoleon Part 6: Showdown at Waterloo

Real Dictators

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The Endoprometheus - A Mythological End

In 1817, Napoleon's health begins to deteriorate. The unsympathetic low pays little heed to searching O'Mere's concerns and dismisses him from service. He dies like a mythological hero because it's the endoprometheus, chained to a rock with his liver devoured,. in reality by cancer and symbolically by a vulture. So it's a mythological end, on this rock lost at the end of the world. This man, who at one point held the world in his hand. He said, I'm going to do this, I'mGoing to do this. It is there on the evening of May 5, 1821, that he

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