I ventured into other Napoleon-inspired Iowa locations such as Bonaparte, a town of 350 in Van Buren county, founded on the Des Moines River by William Meek, an admirer of the emperor, who was ...

It is up to me to give them an example." The battle at Lodi convinced Napoleon Bonaparte that he was a man of destiny. "From that moment," he said, "I foresaw what I might be. Already I felt the ...