CHAPTER XLVI

NAPOLEON

The English were disgusted by this new French Convention and so decided

to go in for The War again, thus causing Nelson and the Duke of

Wellington. The War was now called the Napoleonic War, after Napoleon,

a Corsican, whose real name was Bonuapart, and who had cleverly made

himself First Consort by means of a _whiff of grape-nuts_. (This is

called the Napoleonic Legend.)

The French Revolution caused great loss of life, liberty, fraternity,

etc., and was, of course, a Good Thing, since the French were rather

degenerate at the time; but Napoleon now invented a new Convention that

the French should massacre all the other nations and become top nation,

and this, though quite generate, was a Bad Thing.

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