What Killed Napoleon?

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  • @TodayIFoundOut
    @TodayIFoundOut  2 месяца назад +8

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  • @MrJeffcoley1
    @MrJeffcoley1 2 месяца назад +159

    Death. Death killed Napolean. To death.

    • @01oo011
      @01oo011 2 месяца назад +12

      He died to death?!

    • @yougottabejoking14
      @yougottabejoking14 2 месяца назад +2

      I think it's possible Napoleon was murdered simply because he lived by the sword. As it was with Rome, so also it similarly died

    • @Silverhornet81
      @Silverhornet81 2 месяца назад

      Studies have shown that the leading cause of death is not living anymore.

    • @droomzy
      @droomzy 2 месяца назад +16

      Every time I see someone mentioning dying 2x in a statement I just remember those rushed breaking news stories that various reporters have presented, with concise headlines like "local man killed to death over fatal stabbing" or "deceased murder victim found in park mortally wounded from homicide"

    • @droomzy
      @droomzy 2 месяца назад +6

      @@01oo011I just hope it wasn't fatal 🥺

  • @jimmy6535
    @jimmy6535 2 месяца назад +36

    That arsenic green was nice tho

  • @iangregory3719
    @iangregory3719 2 месяца назад +36

    If you can find it Dr. Susanah Lipscombe presented a series about the hidden killers in the home throughout history, set in various time periods, such as the Elizabethen, Georgian, and Victorian ages. It details the everyday objects and practices that were unknowingly killing thousands of people throughout history.

    • @SharpAssKnittingNeedles
      @SharpAssKnittingNeedles 2 месяца назад +1

      I understood that reference 😁 Suzy's docs are a good watch, but borderline sensationalism. Take em with a pinch of salt

    • @dancingdingo
      @dancingdingo 2 месяца назад

      I love her....I can go on a massive binger on her work.

    • @iangregory3719
      @iangregory3719 2 месяца назад +2

      @@SharpAssKnittingNeedles fair point, unfortunately a lot of people these days need to be sensatinalised for them to take interest.

    • @SharpAssKnittingNeedles
      @SharpAssKnittingNeedles 2 месяца назад

      @@iangregory3719 very good point! We can blame that across the pond to the US here, and the point when the History Channel and other respected ones like Discovery, with their Civilization sub-channel, becoming rags of insane conspiracy theory bullshit. That was a sad shift 😢

    • @SharpAssKnittingNeedles
      @SharpAssKnittingNeedles Месяц назад

      @@iangregory3719 Having watched even more absolute history, that seems to be a trope with them, especially how they name their videos. Good stuff for the most part. Don't understand why they feel the need to lean into the click bait angle 😢

  • @TeamOT
    @TeamOT 2 месяца назад +14

    So basically, arsenic could have come from his wallpaper, his drink, the soil, probably hand cream, his food, his water probably, the mites in his bedsheets, underwear, and clothes, and probably also the ink in the books he read.

    • @ALA9E
      @ALA9E 2 месяца назад

      😁

    • @Hillbilly001
      @Hillbilly001 2 месяца назад

      That's about it.

  • @Al8lack
    @Al8lack 2 месяца назад +42

    So it WASN'T eating 10 tonnes of ice cream at the Piggly Wiggly? 😮

  • @elizabethmcglothlin5406
    @elizabethmcglothlin5406 2 месяца назад +25

    Arsenic was also used in medicine.

  • @klocugh12
    @klocugh12 2 месяца назад +8

    Diarrhea and hemorrhoids affecting his performance at Waterloo? How appropriate! 😂

    • @Vaul_Fusbin
      @Vaul_Fusbin 2 месяца назад +5

      i would HATE to have to ride a horse with raging hemmoroids!

  • @robertthomson1587
    @robertthomson1587 2 месяца назад +5

    I went to St Helena last year. Longwood House is very impressive and the Valley of the Tomb, where Napoleon was initially buried, is very moving.

  • @JesseJoyce-cj2xg
    @JesseJoyce-cj2xg 2 месяца назад +7

    Napoleon thinking after Waterloo that he could just go retire to private life somewhere reminds me of Hermann Goering thinking he could do the same after WWII ended… it seems delusional. Although, I guess Hirohito was allowed to stay emperor after the war, so maybe it’s not as crazy as I think.

    • @jergarmar
      @jergarmar Месяц назад

      Comparing Napoleon to Goering or Hirohito seems kind of arbitrarily. There were tons of European leaders trying to gain power, Napoleon was just really really good at fighting wars.

  • @yiffytimes
    @yiffytimes 2 месяца назад +5

    Amazing how you missed a well documented dinner when some British officials had dinner with Napoleon on St. Helena. All of those who ate with Napoleon was sick shortly after. If that isn't poison I don't know what else is.

    • @QBCPerdition
      @QBCPerdition 2 месяца назад +2

      Could be food poisoning, but not intentional

  • @chrisshorten4406
    @chrisshorten4406 2 месяца назад +1

    That scheel's green was no joke. It was a beautiful killer in the Victorian era for sure.
    And calomel is definitely not something to be messed with.

  • @nemesisofeden
    @nemesisofeden 2 месяца назад +6

    I think I would take Soilent Green before Arsenic Green.

    • @i.b.640
      @i.b.640 Месяц назад

      I mean ... Soylent Green is disgusting and unethical, but at least nutrious and healthy

  • @13minutestomidnight
    @13minutestomidnight 2 месяца назад +2

    People were also poisoned just by breathing in poorly ventilated air in rooms with arsenic wallpaper. You don't have to touch it to be poisoned by it, although mould would certainly help disseminate arsenic particulates in the air (which worsens the breathing issues).
    But also the medical treatments at the time were very primitive and destructive to the patient's body anyway, so just that alone could have made a patient with gastric ulcers and stomach cancer so compromised that they died earlier than they might have with just the cancer alone.

  • @thesausagecontinuim1971
    @thesausagecontinuim1971 2 месяца назад +1

    interesting stuff man!! thnx!!

  • @andrewallen9993
    @andrewallen9993 2 месяца назад +22

    His home was painted with lead and arsenic based paints.

    • @nigelthomas8899
      @nigelthomas8899 2 месяца назад +4

      Scheele's Green killed quite a few people

    • @anna9072
      @anna9072 2 месяца назад +1

      I noticed the picture that was showed at the very beginning showed much of the decor was dyed green.

  • @mr.personhumanson6871
    @mr.personhumanson6871 2 месяца назад +32

    3 things that could defeat Napoleon, Duke of Wellington, a herd of rabbits, and wallpaper

    • @csonracsonra9962
      @csonracsonra9962 2 месяца назад

      Actually I think there's an officer by the last name of Sterling does when did Napoleon's progress more than anybody and it was his nephew that Captain the ship that took him into exile in fact Napoleon stated this that was the man that he dreaded the most

  • @danielsantiagourtado3430
    @danielsantiagourtado3430 2 месяца назад +4

    Love your content

    • @droomzy
      @droomzy 2 месяца назад +1

      Would you say that his content leaves you feeling ....content?

  • @sophierobinson2738
    @sophierobinson2738 2 месяца назад +1

    And here I always thought that it was the green arsenic wallpaper.

  • @thomasgartman4025
    @thomasgartman4025 2 месяца назад

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  • @lastnamename
    @lastnamename 2 месяца назад

    great video as always but why rushing??

    • @SharpAssKnittingNeedles
      @SharpAssKnittingNeedles 2 месяца назад

      Doesn't he film a shit ton of videos a day? I'd be rushed too 😂 quite the prodigious uploader, Simon

  • @ewaldvonkleist6834
    @ewaldvonkleist6834 2 месяца назад +2

    And.......if he picked it up in his environment, why did not others in his staff not get sick and die?

    • @smooshiebear80
      @smooshiebear80 2 месяца назад +1

      Do we know for sure that they didn’t? Or might it have accelerated stomach cancer?

  • @dvwegner
    @dvwegner 2 месяца назад +2

    Arsenic and strychnine for fun? They went hard back in the day.

    • @garyclark3843
      @garyclark3843 2 месяца назад +2

      Don't give Keith Richards any ideas.

  • @hathhath2444
    @hathhath2444 2 месяца назад

    Glasses? This your drawer video? Was expecting no glasses Simon.

  • @BobFudgee
    @BobFudgee 2 месяца назад

    How does this guy have so much time to host his many channels, this is like the 6th one ive seen haha

  • @kali3665
    @kali3665 2 месяца назад

    Simon, when you coming back to Biographics?

  • @WalterHildahl
    @WalterHildahl 2 месяца назад

    The wallpaper killed Napolean. Arsenic coat wallpaper.

  • @pudimdecana51
    @pudimdecana51 2 месяца назад

    If ambient arsenic was the cause, not only Napoleon, but the others coinhabiting with him would have suffered similar symptoms. Is there any information on this?

  • @pq7185
    @pq7185 2 месяца назад +8

    It was the legal team representing B0eing. They have a time machine they only use to cut manufacturing costs

  • @Aramis419
    @Aramis419 2 месяца назад

    Gilles Messier?? The “Our Own Devices” guy was the author of this episode?

  • @NecroChungus
    @NecroChungus 2 месяца назад

    My brain keeps telling me that this title says "what if I killed napoleon"

  • @michaelhowell2326
    @michaelhowell2326 2 месяца назад +2

    Do you think while crossing the Channel Napoleon thought about he had always dreamed of doing it, just under much different circumstances?

  • @Toadaboticus
    @Toadaboticus 2 месяца назад +1

    Only Napoleon would get got by the color green. Let alone Wall Paper decorated in Fleur-de-lis patten made of Scheeles green that was just patriotically Gassing him on behalf of the France during those Humid days.
    That Dye when damp flakes and releases stibine gas.
    I knew this one ahead of time for once. But didn't know about all the allegations of assassination

  • @gekolizzard
    @gekolizzard 2 месяца назад

    Tumick upsets?
    Interesting very interesting..

  • @Opus313
    @Opus313 2 месяца назад +2

    It was beauty that killed the beast...

  • @hisdadjames4876
    @hisdadjames4876 2 месяца назад +1

    He appears to have died from a succession of Lowe blows😖. That said, I’m surprised he wasn’t simply executed upon capture, the normal fate of charismatic leaders on the losing side😂 How civilised, to exile him with some of his chums and a personal physician. Goering himself might have wished for such treatment 🫤

  • @thebuccaneersden
    @thebuccaneersden 2 месяца назад +8

    He was poisoned. Occam's razor.

    • @ziggy8036
      @ziggy8036 2 месяца назад +3

      Instead of over Analyzing the situation just go with the simple probable answer

    • @thebuccaneersden
      @thebuccaneersden 2 месяца назад

      @@ziggy8036 Yah. Simple probable answer makes the most sense. He was poisoned. Occam’s razor.

    • @ziggy8036
      @ziggy8036 2 месяца назад +1

      @@thebuccaneersden okay thanks. I looked up Occam’s razor a few years ago. I tried to come up with a simplified definition to see how well my memory is lol

    • @thebuccaneersden
      @thebuccaneersden 2 месяца назад

      @@ziggy8036 np 😊 take care!

    • @SharpAssKnittingNeedles
      @SharpAssKnittingNeedles 2 месяца назад

      When a conspiracy likely involving many people is suspected, Occam's Razor would imply that the simplest answer is that he was poisoned by his environment. Someone would have squealed and there would be documentary evidence of some sort.

  • @ClutchMyPrimus1
    @ClutchMyPrimus1 2 месяца назад

    What was with the images from a nuclear reactor and the cartoons of fusion? Lol.

  • @Firmth
    @Firmth Месяц назад

    I don't even care about this topic i just want to hear Simons velvety accent when he says "muuhhhda"

  • @AkiraHDR50
    @AkiraHDR50 2 месяца назад +1

    According to Chiun in Remo unarmed and dangerous it was a Sinanja assassin that killed him.

    • @derrickray5464
      @derrickray5464 2 месяца назад +1

      Because, "assassination is the highest form of public service. . ."

    • @AkiraHDR50
      @AkiraHDR50 2 месяца назад

      @@derrickray5464 thank you, some one who gets me.

  • @Mister_Skar
    @Mister_Skar 2 месяца назад +5

    I heard it was Vince McMahon all along.

    • @france2j
      @france2j 2 месяца назад

      Napoleon screwed Napoleon

  • @ShangDi_became_Jesus
    @ShangDi_became_Jesus Месяц назад

    The movie is awesome

  • @g6otu
    @g6otu 2 месяца назад +1

    Paint

  • @scipio7
    @scipio7 2 месяца назад

    It sounds like the British doctors did do some poisoning, but it was roughly the same set of poisons they would have given to an upperclass Londoner of the same period.

  • @jjsc4396
    @jjsc4396 2 месяца назад

    Arsenic was a not uncommon treatment for various infections.

  • @wanderer5200
    @wanderer5200 2 месяца назад

    Wellington? Why is it always Wellington?

  • @josephjones4293
    @josephjones4293 2 месяца назад

    Anybody got the arsenic and strychnine hulk serum recipe? Asking for… educational purposes

  • @drewjohnston4309
    @drewjohnston4309 2 месяца назад

    Oscar Wilde was in a room decorated with Scheeles Green when he said that quote. He was just commenting on how ugly it was, but still.

  • @ShangDi_became_Jesus
    @ShangDi_became_Jesus Месяц назад

    Or what if he got poisoned after first becoming really sick? That would be the best time to wait and do it that way there would be no question how he got sick in then first place.

  • @ianonymous3524
    @ianonymous3524 Месяц назад

    He didn’t die on the island he was rescued by Jean Lafitte and both died shortly after escaping to America

  • @WillPhil290
    @WillPhil290 2 месяца назад

    Death is nothing... But to live ingloriously and in disgrace... Is to die... Every day.

  • @scooby45247
    @scooby45247 2 месяца назад

    OR Napoleon was in so much pain he wanted to end it and the laxatives were the fastest way a doctor could do it humanely by simply speeding up the process.. only they will know and thats how they would want it

  • @Count_Smackula
    @Count_Smackula 2 месяца назад

    Heart failure. Ultimately, the heart always fails you.

  • @RussellBond-dk6dj
    @RussellBond-dk6dj 2 месяца назад

    They doctored his Wine and cognac with arsenic and that got him in the end.

    • @dennis12dec
      @dennis12dec 20 дней назад

      It was Count Tristan de Montholon that carried out this dastardly deed.

  • @jaalsburg
    @jaalsburg 2 месяца назад +2

    People always seem to need to invent drama, see U.S. politics now. Combination of being deathly ill, ancient medicine practices, and ignorance of chemicals in day to day lives should have been enough.

  • @gekolizzard
    @gekolizzard 2 месяца назад +1

    Napoleon killed Napoleon.
    😅

  • @MauroTamm
    @MauroTamm 2 месяца назад +1

    Or it was intentional at the end - a form of euthanasia. Perhaps even on napoleons request.

  • @PatriceRacine
    @PatriceRacine 2 месяца назад

    A British exonerating the British involvement in Napoleon's death. What a surprise

  • @PlsLeaveMeAlone
    @PlsLeaveMeAlone Месяц назад

    Vsauce is back!?!

  • @kevinyoung9706
    @kevinyoung9706 2 месяца назад

    Tomache lol😅

  • @Jayjay-qe6um
    @Jayjay-qe6um 2 месяца назад

    A 2021 study by an international team of gastrointestinal pathologists concluded that Napoleon died of stomach cancer.

    • @Brightangel55
      @Brightangel55 Месяц назад

      I wonder how they explained his body's slow decomposition

  • @alidaweber1023
    @alidaweber1023 2 месяца назад

    I'm no fan of empires in general or of Napoleon in particular. That said, no matter how bad an exiled enemy actually was, cruelty toward captives reflects badly on the captors.

  • @ewaldvonkleist6834
    @ewaldvonkleist6834 2 месяца назад

    uh huh..............

  • @thomascostello259
    @thomascostello259 2 месяца назад +2

    If I'm correct, it was some kind of poisoning.

  • @turtletom8383
    @turtletom8383 2 месяца назад

    what killed Napoleon 😮? 16 min 😢 well i guess ill have to google it because F this

  • @dancingdingo
    @dancingdingo 2 месяца назад +1

    Sorry 😔 it was me.

  • @archivis
    @archivis 2 месяца назад

    :)))))

  • @rook9860
    @rook9860 2 месяца назад

    Sounds like medieval medicine killed him

  • @archivis
    @archivis 2 месяца назад

    :)

  • @debzcharlesworth9886
    @debzcharlesworth9886 2 месяца назад +2

    What killed Napoleon.....Joaquin Phoenix

  • @Alphacheesehunter
    @Alphacheesehunter 2 месяца назад

    His blood turned into a fine wine a butter sauce. Soooooo good!

  • @AgnotologyTV
    @AgnotologyTV 2 месяца назад

    Didn't think I was gonna click into a 16 minute video for this.

  • @1TakoyakiStore
    @1TakoyakiStore 2 месяца назад

    Cringe. Cringe killed the emperor.

  •  2 месяца назад

    Syphilis

  • @ewaldvonkleist6834
    @ewaldvonkleist6834 2 месяца назад

    Of course the British killed him...........I mean that is not even a question.

  • @auro1986
    @auro1986 2 месяца назад +1

    yes your ancestors were smart in every profession

  • @tomcat8662
    @tomcat8662 2 месяца назад +3

    Of course coming from an Englishmen, you may want to take all this information with a grain of salt. 😂

  • @fattiger6957
    @fattiger6957 2 месяца назад +5

    French food. All that wine and butter probably ain't so great for long-term gut health.

    • @peterpanini96
      @peterpanini96 2 месяца назад +2

      Butter deserves some respect... you don't... 😂

    • @Reallifeintheblue
      @Reallifeintheblue 2 месяца назад +3

      Ummm. I've been there. Their food is so much cleaner than even we are used to.

  • @joppadoni
    @joppadoni 2 месяца назад

    oscar..

  • @RC71153
    @RC71153 2 месяца назад

    The Brits killed him, end of story.

    • @dennis12dec
      @dennis12dec 20 дней назад

      It wasn't the British it was from within Napoleon's inner circle and it was Count Tristan de Montholon based on the studies in the 1950s by a Swedish dentist and Amateur Toxicologist Dr. Sten Forhusuvd and found traces of arsenic in a single strand of Napoleon's hair about 15 times or more, it was Chronic Arsenic poisoning that caused his death when his body was exhumed 19 years after his death it was found perfectly intact no signs of deterioration, conclusion arsenic kills but it also preserves tissue.

  • @mishkatown8625
    @mishkatown8625 2 месяца назад

    Napoleon suffered from Little Man Syndrome.

  • @mikaelaltairbruneau474
    @mikaelaltairbruneau474 2 месяца назад

    Nobody unalived him. He just grew his hair out and now makes whiny music about his ex-boyfriends. Apparently, he's now dating some football player🤷‍♂️

  • @mallen6783
    @mallen6783 2 месяца назад

    Who cares about who killed Napoleon?!
    Napoleon is dead already anyways😅

  • @SharpAssKnittingNeedles
    @SharpAssKnittingNeedles 2 месяца назад

    As someone who doesn't find modern history even remotely intersting, this is borderline but a very good video. Thank you! Very interesting!

    • @Faceplay2
      @Faceplay2 2 месяца назад +1

      You must not like a lot of history, then, because modern history is considered from 1500 to 1945.
      There’s a lot of interesting stuff that happened between those dates if you pick up a book.
      All throughout the world as well.

    • @SharpAssKnittingNeedles
      @SharpAssKnittingNeedles 2 месяца назад

      @@Faceplay2 I'm actually a voracious reader 😂 I just find anything after the Victorian era very boring to study in detail. Sure, interesting things happened and this is when groundbreaking science really started being discovered in replicable and intricately discrete fashion, but generally meh 🤷‍♂️ just doesn't scratch the itch of the imagination for me. Good on you for liking it though.

  • @give_me_my_nick_back
    @give_me_my_nick_back 2 месяца назад +1

    Oxygen