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(June 12, 2023 / JNS) With the barrage of untruths emanating from Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas and his underlings, it is always a welcome and refreshing phenomenon when world leaders recognize and speak the truth about Israel and the Jews. Pat Robertson, who passed away last week, was one such leader. He was a great friend of the State of Israel and will be sorely missed. I am always grateful when leaders clearly state that the Jews are the rightful heirs to the Land of Israel, which was promised by the almighty to the Jewish people. I appreciate it when diplomats and dignitaries point out that the First and Second Temples stood on the Temple Mount. It is not well known that Napoleon Bonaparte was one of these leaders. In 1799, he tried to conquer the Land of Israel from the Ottoman governor Ahmad Pasha al-Jazzar, also known as “The Butcher.” On April 16, 1799, Napoleon defeated the Butcher’s cavalry at the Battle of Tabor Mountain. When he reached Ramla, 25 miles from Jerusalem, he made a “Proclamation to the Jews.” “Israelites, unique nation, whom, in thousands of years, lust of conquest and tyranny have been able to be deprived of their ancestral lands, but not of name and national existence! Arise then, with gladness, ye exiled!” “A war unexampled in the annals of history … avenges [France’s] own shame and the shame of the remotest nations, long forgotten under the yoke of slavery, and also the almost 2,000-year-old ignominy put upon you,” it went on. “Whi...

WATCH: Napoleon's Final Exile Exile on Saint Helena Island A tiny island measuring only about 10 by 5 miles, its jagged cliffs must have seemed a grim sight when the former emperor first laid eyes on it. After initially enjoying two pleasant months living at the home of a former friend William Balcombe, Napoleon was then moved to nearby His servants were said to have complained of “colds, catarrhs, damp floors and poor provisions.” One of the entourage of 28 people who accompanied Napoleon was the Comte de Las Cases, who described Longwood House as “a wretched hovel, a few feet square.” The island also appears to have been infested with rats, a feature that political satirists from all over Europe took as an opportunity to poke fun at the vanquished former emperor. A WATCH: It would only get worse. The new British governor of the island, Hudson Lowe, was determined that Napoleon would not escape from this exile as he had done from his first one in Elba, and so restricted his movement, monitoring his correspondence, and ordering that Napoleon be seen in the flesh by British officers several times a day. This led to the ex-emperor going into a bizarre form of rebellion, closing the shutters of the house and carving tiny peepholes into them so that he could look out without being seen. He also designed sunken pathways in the garden to make it harder for the officers to spot him. And despite Lowe’s orders that gifts were not permitted if they made mention of Napoleon’s imperia...

Was Napoleon Short? In France, moreover, the From Elba Napoleon kept a close watch on the Continent. He knew that some of the All these Napoleon was brought back to power as the embodiment of the spirit of the Revolution rather than as the emperor who had fallen a year before. To rally the mass of Frenchmen to his cause, he should have allied himself with the To oppose the allied troops massing on the frontiers, Napoleon mustered an army with which he marched into Belgium and defeated the Prussians at Back in Paris, the parliament forced Napoleon to abdicate; he did so, in favour of his son, on June 22, 1815. On July 3 he was at Bellerophon on July 15. The allies were agreed on one point: Napoleon was not to go back to Elba. Nor did they like the idea of his going off to America. It would have suited them if he had fallen a victim to the “White Terror” of the returned counterrevolutionaries or if Louis XVIII had had him summarily tried and executed. Great Britain had no choice but to send him to detention in a far-off island. The British government announced that the island of

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by published on 12 June 2023 Rating: Title: Napoleon Vs. the Bunnies Author: Fox, J. F. & Kwan, Anna Audience: Young Children Difficulty: Easy Publisher: Kids Can Pr Published: 2021 Pages: 40 An excellent children's book on an often-overlooked historical event: when Napoleon Bonaparte fled from the hundreds of rabbits his chief-of-staff had gathered for a celebratory hunt. This book is clever and comical with excellent illustrations and is a treat for readers of all ages. Napoleon vs. The Bunnies is the book one remembers from childhood. In 1807, after signing the Treaties of Tilsit which ended the The bunnies didn’t hippity-hop for their lives. Quite the opposite! They made a beeline straight for Napoleon. You see, the rabbits Louie had collected were not wild. They had grown up on farms – farms where they were fed by people. Instead of going to the trouble of rounding up wild rabbits to be hunted, Louis-Alexandre had simply purchased as many as he could from farmers and, for some reason, thought they would scatter like wild animals once released. Instead, since they were used to people and were accustomed to approaching them at feeding times, they hopped toward the person who seemed to be in charge: Napoleon. The rabbits focused all their attention on Napoleon - and advanced. Did Napoleon appreciate this? Not at all. What happened next can only be considered a serious defeat for the great general, but this reviewer cannot give away the ending - everyone is encouraged to ...

At Waterloo in Belgium, The Corsica-born Napoleon, one of the greatest military strategists in history, rapidly rose in the ranks of the French Revolutionary Army during the late 1790s. By 1799, France was at war with most of Europe, and Napoleon returned home from his Egyptian campaign to take over the reins of the French government and save his nation from collapse. After becoming first consul in February 1800, he reorganized his armies and defeated Austria. In 1802, he established the Napoleonic Code, a new system of French law, and in 1804 was crowned emperor of France in Notre Dame Cathedral. By 1807, Napoleon controlled an empire that stretched from the River Elbe in the north, down through Italy in the south, and from the Pyrenees to the Dalmatian coast. Beginning in 1812, Napoleon began to encounter the first significant defeats of his military career, suffering through a disastrous invasion of Russia, losing Spain to the Duke of Wellington in the Peninsula War, and enduring total defeat against an allied force by 1814. Exiled to the island of Elba in the Mediterranean, he escaped to France in early 1815 and set up a new regime. As allied troops mustered on the French frontiers, he raised a new Grand Army and marched into Belgium. He intended to defeat the allied armies one by one before they could launch a united attack. On June 16, 1815, he defeated the Prussians under Gebhard Leberecht von Blucher at Ligny, and sent 33,000 men, or about one-third of his total fo...