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Impala.
Apiece.
Tooth.
Utter.

You can utter Napoleon and the History of Science together with great ease as Bonaparte's expedition to conquer Egypt included many of the greatest minds in France who made extensive studies of the fauna ( like the black faced impala) as well as the flora of the very old country and its surrounding regions in Northwest and Northeast Africa. http://www.ancient-egypt.co.uk/peopl...#39;egypte.htm

These scholars even became apiece of the teeth in the line for battles when Napoleon needed them with the call of "Donkeys and scholars in the middle!"

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Jumble | Seattle Times Newspaper

Hurry.
Depict.
Outing.
Awake.

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Jumble | Seattle Times Newspaper

Hurry.
Depict.
Outing.
Awake.

Battle of Lodi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Battle of Lodi is often depicted as the place that Napoleon's soldiers started calling him "the Little Corporal" because of his taking charge of cannons in the middle of the battle. There is no hard evidence of this, however, and it seems like some lovers of the Napoleonic legend were in a hurry to awaken the muses of warfare with respect to almost making Napoleon mythical in the various military battles, campaigns, and smaller outings in what would later be called Italy.

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Sunday's Word Jumble answers from the Villages Daily Sun:

Facet.
Novel.
Cymbal.
Lotion.

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Sunday's Word Jumble answers from the Villages Daily Sun:

Facet.
Novel.
Cymbal.
Lotion.

A hardly novel facet of Napoleon's conquests was the new geographical entities upon his victories often manned by his relatives or some general or other subordinate who had pleased him. This had often been a cymbal played by other Empires that had conquered various territories in Italy and from the Italian peninsula like the Romans. Just hope some of these more people from more Northern European climates found lotions more suitable to the Mediterranean areas.

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Jumble - Houston Chronicle

Verge.
Robin.
Revert.
Fabric.

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Tuesday Word Jumble answers:

Stand.
Bloom.
Rabbit.
Vision.

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Jumble - Houston Chronicle

Verge.
Robin.
Revert.
Fabric.

Jumble | Seattle Times Newspaper

You wonder if when the Napoleon family was on the verge of fame and fortune did they look back on their much poorer days and revert to forced diets due to lack of food and robbing robin nest's for eggs? Did they still wear some of the fabrics of their impoverished days?

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Jumble - Houston Chronicle

Wednesday's Word Jumble answers.

Slant.
Toxic.
Stooge.
Afloat.

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Facts About Napoleon Bonaparte | Interesting Facts

Bonaparte seems to have taken a stand against the power of the Pope in France and he bloomed with interest in Islam because of his time in Egypt and interest in stealing the Eastern trade routes from the British. He shared in the vision of Alexander the Great in a diffuse empire which drew on the cultures of the territories he conquered or hoped to conquer.

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Jumble - Houston Chronicle

Wednesday's Word Jumble answers.

Slant.
Toxic.
Stooge.
Afloat.

There is a story involving rabbits which puts a different slant on the Myth of Napoleon and kind of makes him look like one of the Three Stooges rather than a man so toxic to the British Empire that they spent a huge amount of resources fighting him and his ideas. At least, it does not involve any defeats afloat at the hands of Horatio Nelson. Combat Information Center analysis, facts and figures about military conflicts and leaders - Military History

Napoleon’s Rabbit Hunt

Resting from his labors after rearranging the geography of Europe in the aftermath of the Peace of Tilsit (July 7-9, 1807), Napoleon proposed that the Imperial Court engage in a rabbit hunt, entrusting the arrangements to his brilliant chief-of-staff, Alexandre Berthier.

Using all the energy and attention to detail with which he normally managed the Emperor’s campaigns, Berthier soon had everything in order. The Imperial hunting party – numerous enough to be mistaken for a regiment – would be sustained by a logistical train to provide a lucullan repast under an elaborate tent, while large details of gun bearers, game keepers, and beaters would be available to lend a hand. Leaving nothing to chance, Berthier even arranged to insure the supply of rabbits, procuring some hundreds, lest nature fail to cooperate in providing sufficient targets for the Imperial pleasure.

And so, on the designated day, the Emperor proceeded in his coach to the appointed place, escorted by Guardsmen, Equerries, and various others of his household, and followed by a host of kings, marshals, barons, generals, counts, and lesser folk. But something went wrong. As the Imperial conveyance approached the designated killing fields, the game keepers began releasing the rabbits. When the Emperor dismounted, much to everyone’s surprise, the lepine horde, rather than fleeing in all directions, made straight for him, in all their hundreds.

Confronted by this flood of rabbits, the Emperor’s escort formed a skirmish line to protect him. But, in the words of historian David Chandler, “with a finer understanding of Napoleonic strategy than most of his generals, the rabbit horde divided into two wings and poured around the flanks of the party.” As the Emperor fled to the relative safety of his coach, the rabbits pursued, some allegedly even leaping into it, so that he had to lend a hand in ejecting them even as his coachmen whipped up their horses.

In the aftermath, it transpired that Berthier, despite all his attention to detail, had procured not wild rabbits, but domesticated ones. Thus, when they espied the Emperor and his coach coming towards them, they though he was their keeper bringing good things to eat and acted accordingly.

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Jumble - Houston Chronicle

Ditch.
Blurb.
Expose.
Alkali.

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Jumble - Houston Chronicle

Ditch.
Blurb.
Expose.
Alkali.

You can find the influence of Napoleon Bonaparte in many things in 2013. Among these are one region of expertise-- the making of olives in Napoleon brand olives. Here's a blurb from the website of Napoleon olives about U.S. consumption of olives. http://www.napoleon-co.com/pages/pro...es/olives.html

Americans consume some 180,000 tons of olives annually:
110,000 tons of black olives from California
40,000 tons of Spanish-style stuffed green olives
25,000 tons of black ripe olives from Egypt/Morocco/Spain
5,000 tons of specialty olives, including Kalamatas

Olives enjoy good annual growth of 5-10%. The U.S., for instance, imports 50% of Spain’s crop, the EEC 28%, and the Arab countries 10%. Spain is the world’s biggest producer of table olives, with annual production at around 200,000 tons. With a base of about 300 million trees, Andalusia, particularly the province of Seville, accounts for some 50% of the national production. Harvesting begins in September.

Even if you want to ditch the ideas of Napoleon, you still have to contend the many places that he has had influence on like with the Napoleon brand of olives which show an image of Napoleon on the can. We are exposed to Napoleon's impact much like an olive that needs to be treated with an alkaline solution to counteract its bitterness.

“Black” olives are, technically speaking, fruit which have been picked before quite ripe, and which have been blackened by oxidation (the bitterness is counteracted by treatment with an alkaline lye solution), packed in brine, and preserved using heat sterilization. With the exception of only a couple of varieties that sweeten as they ripen (Greek Thassos and Italian Dolce Di Andrea), olives are extremely bitter and inedible straight from the tree.

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Jumble - Houston Chronicle

Weary.
Offer.
Divert.
Allege.

Many a citizen of an Italian city-state received an offer he or she could not refuse by Napoleon Bonaparte who is alleged to have executed and then confiscated the property of people who declined. Many a French soldier was weary from all the Italian treasures they had to transport to France or which were diverted to the friends of Napoleon and his family.

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Jumble - Houston Chronicle

Ensign.
Trick.
Faith.
Sprung.

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