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5 People Driven to America by the Napoleonic Wars
November 16, 2018
Like the French Revolution, the Napoleonic Wars – which raged across Europe from 1803 to 1815 – caused a number of French people to flee to America. Some regarded themselves as Frenchmen living in exile and returned to France at the first opportunity. Others stayed and became part of American society. Here are five prominent French refugees who wound up in the United States during the Napoleonic Wars.
We must confess that fate, which sports with man, makes merry work with the affairs of this world.
Napoleon Bonaparte