July 31, 2013 Word Jumble answers--shiny, splint, bribe, infant.
 

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Shiny.
Splint.
Bribe.
Infant.

Napoleon Bonaparte's children
 

Napoleon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Napoleon probably would have wanted to bribe the English newspapers to prevent the publication of his letter to his brother Joseph about Josephine's adultery with Hippolyte Charles. This is not exactly a shiny example of an honorable marriage nor could in provide the heir which Bonaparte so wanted for his legacy to continue. He divorced his rose and sought more fertile women to provide an infant while splinting his pride with is own amorous adventures including one with a woman some nicknamed Cleopatra.

Spruce, adopt, person, droop.
 

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August 1, 2013 Word Jumble answers.

Even if spruced up, Napoleon Bonaparte at 15 would have been a very difficult person as a candidate for adoption. His spirits were already droopping because of the French in his native Corsica. He considered himself an Italian patriot. http://www.indepthinfo.com/history/napoleonic-age.htm

Friday's Word Jumble answers: sushi, oddest, sleigh, humid.
 

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Sushi.
Humid.
Sleigh.
Oddest.

Battle of Austerlitz - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

It was not humid at all, that December of 1805 when Napoleon's armies made buzzard sushi out of Austrian and Russian forces. He probably even had to sleigh away from the battlefield.

This is the battle the features heavily in Tolstoy's War and Peace. http://napoleonistyka.atspace.com/Ru...#_in_1799-1806 The Russian reaction to the French victory was one of the oddest in history as Russia was one of the first of the defeated nations to get back up and stand its ground.

Sunday's Word Jumble answers from The Villages Daily Sun.
 

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Fudge.
Liner.
Anyone.
Lacing.

Anyone writing about the Napoleonic Wars could not fudge lacing the tale with the story of Nelson at Trafalgar. It is hardly a one-liner however and may take a few days to cover. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Trafalgar

A good start for the story comes from the 200th Anniversary of the 1805 battle in 2005 by The Guardian http://www.theguardian.com/flash/0,5860,1504015,00.html.

Tipsy, pilot, dressy, fierce.
 

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Monday, August 5, 2013 Word Jumble answers.

Tipsy, pilot, fierce, dressy
 

Napoleon's nemesis Lord Horation Nelson wins the battle but loses his life at Trafalgar.

Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

You can pilot your internet experience just a little bit now into the fierce sea battle that was Trafalgar even if you are hardly dressy and a bit tipsy. Portsmouth Historic Dockyard HMS Victory

August 6, 2013 Word Jumble answers.
 

Finch, ditto, wheeze, menace are Tuesday's Word Jumble answers.


http://www.chron.com/entertainment/c.../comic/Jumble/

I doubt is a finch flying near the area of the battle of Trafalgar could have survived all the cannon, grape and musket shot. Ditto for those animals with the gift of flight especially the humans in this melee. There was much to menace living things near this havoc-- enough to make even the bravest wheeze.

John Keegan's The Price of Admiralty: the Evolution of Naval Warfare is a very good book with a section on Trafalgar and its history.

Life aboard the Victory.
 

Ahoy Matey, Life aboard Man-O-War, HMS Victory #1 Quiz - HMS Victory

http://www.chron.com/entertainment/c.../comic/Jumble/

Many seaman probably panicked at the track of various enemy ships; while Lord Nelson became jovial as he bemused at the prospect of beating the French navy and their allies.

You can test your knowledge of life aboard an English naval ship in the late 1700 and early 1800s in the Funtrivia test linked above as well as the one below.
http://www.funtrivia.com/quizdetails...&ref=Taltarzac

Thursday's Word Jumble answers: piglet, stash, parade.
 

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August 8, 2013 Word Jumble answers:

Piglet.
Stash.
Rebel.
Parade.

Trafalgar Day - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The two World Wars significantly affected the image of war and caused many to stash their patriotic feelings in other areas than the making of war. Trafalgar Day and its celebrations with parades certainly took a big hit with this historical development especially since many of the fascist dictators of the 20th century made a piglet of Napoleon Bonaparte when you compared just how fair men like Hitler, Stalin and Mussolini were willing to change their world according to their own visions of what the world should look like. Definitely these were ideas to rebel against.

August 9, 2013 Word Jumble answers.
 

Friday's Word Jumble answers:

Anyhow.
Ballad.
Elude.
Piano.

http://www.chron.com/entertainment/c.../comic/Jumble/

For checking Saturday's Word Jumble answers: http://www.uclick.com/client/sea/tmjmf/index.html

The Grand Conversation.
 

The Grand Conversation on Napoleon (Roud 1189)

Anyhow, I don't know if this ballad about Napoleon was accompanied by piano but I rather doubt it. You do see Napoleon's attack on Russia as well as his Waterloo eluded to in this tale of woe.