Scientists announced the actual cause of Napoleon Bonaparte’s death about 200 years after this mystery, as it was found that he died due to an advanced stage of stomach cancer, and it was not due to arsenic poisoning as was common, after his defeat at the hands of the British in 1815 AD, the French emperor was exiled to the island of Saint Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean, and after six years Bonaparte whispered his last words, “Head of the Army,” as the autopsy indicated at the time that his death was due to stomach cancer, and after finding some arsenic in his hair in 1961 AD, rumors were raised by some about the possibility of poisoning him, and trying to kill him. , because if he had escaped from exile, he could have changed the balance of power in Europe, so expectations of the possibility of killing him were not strange.
A new study that combined current medical knowledge, autopsy reports, Bonaparte’s doctor’s notes, eyewitness accounts, and family medical history found that gastrointestinal bleeding was the direct cause of Napoleon Bonaparte’s death. Had he escaped the island, his end-of-life condition would have prevented him from playing another major role in the events of European history, according to lead study author Robert Genta of the University of Southwest Texas .
Napoleon Bonaparte
Napoleon I was born on August 15, 1769 AD, and died on May 5, 1821 AD, on the island of Saint Helena. He was the French general, the first consul in the period between 1799-1804 AD, and Emperor of France in the period between 1804-(18/15), which is One of the most famous figures in the history of the West, where Napoleon revolutionized the organization and military training, which was subject to the Napoleonic laws, the prototype of the civil law laws that emerged later, he also reorganized education, and established a long-standing treaty with the papacy.
The question continues about the cause of Napoleon Bonaparte’s cancer, despite Owen Connelly’s suggestion about Napoleon’s genetic predisposition to this disease, study author Ginta says that there is disagreement about the exact cause of the death of Napoleon’s father and sister, as according to autopsy reports it is impossible to definitively say that the tumor who was said to have killed Napoleon’s father was cancerous, Neither of Napoleon’s brothers underwent an autopsy, which made his sister’s diagnosis of stomach cancer questionable, in addition to the fact that Napoleon’s wounds indicate that he was chronically infected with Helicobacter pylori, a bacterium that may cause gastritis, and increase the likelihood of infection. Stomach cancer, Ginta added that an eighteenth-century military diet, which lacked fresh meat, fruits, and vegetables, may have increased Napoleon’s risk of stomach cancer.
