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Article: Napoleon invades America. (various artists, Memphis Cook Convention Center, Memphis, Tennessee) (Cover Story)
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- USA TODAY
- Article date:
- July 1, 1993
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From paintings and sculpture to period furnishings, the treasures on exhibition at the Memphis Cook Convention Center capture the military and imperial nature of the man who left his mark on civilization.
Few figures in history have inscribed their names as indelibly in the annals of mankind as Napoleon Bonaparte. A magnificent warrior and master diplomat, he bestored Europe like a Colossus and, in little over two decades, changed the face of that continent, as well as those of North America and Africa. Feared by his enemies and revered by his countrymen, Napoleon dominated his time as but a handful have before or since.
Napoleon Bonaparte was born in ...