How/ when did Napoleon lost his right hand?

[confusedpink]

If anyone can answer this question I would be very grateful!

[jno]

I don't think he did - he was painted with it tucked inside his waistcoat but it was still there

http://www.cursoarte.hpg.ig.com.br/aulas/image ns/napoleon.jpg

[jake-the-peg]

Well Arsenic actually but close!

You might wonder how they know this about the wallpaper.

About 20 years ago somebody put forward this suggestion and was trying to find out about the colour of the waper

A week later there was a letter from somedody who had had an ancestor who'd taken a little "souvenier" from St. Helena - you've guessed it a scrap of wallpaper which was green and had a lot of Arsenic in it.

I think it's unlikely as there were a lot of other people guarding him that seemed OK but he certainly seems to have died from Arsenic.

http://www.grand-illusions.com/napoleon/napol1 .htm

But considering how many people died in the wars he started I can't feel all that sorry for him

[Octavius]

As said above, Nappy's right hand remained at his �. right hand side throughout his life although he was often protrayed with it tucked into his waistcoat. Our own Mr Nelson however, was shot in the right arm with a musketball, fracturing his humerus bone in multiple places. Since medical science of the day counselled amputation for almost all serious limb wounds (to prevent death by gangrene), Nelson lost almost his entire right arm and was unfit for duty until mid-December. He referred to the stub as "my fin."

[BrainMonkeys]

I blame Time Bandits for people thinking Napoloeon only had one hand...