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@@ -163,11 +163,11 @@ he also initiated the napoleonic wars 1801, a series of wars that carried over i
 as emperor napoleon i, he modernized the french military.
 after a series of military defeats in 1812 13, napoleon was forced to abdicate the french throne on april 6, 1814.
 napoleon returned to power in early 1815 but was again ousted on june 22, 1815.
-in october 1815 napoleon was exiled to the remote island of st, helena in the south atlantic ocean, where he remained until he died on may 5, 1821, at age 51.
+in october 1815 napoleon was exiled to the remote island of saint helena in the south atlantic ocean, where he remained until he died on may 5, 1821, at age 51.
 'le petit caporal' wasn't petite at least not by 19th-century standards.
 the estimated average height of a french man in 1820 was 5 feet 4 inches (about 1,65 meters).
 at the time of his death in 1821, napoleon measured about 5 feet 7 inches (roughly 1,68 meters) tall, meaning that he was actually of above-average height.
-napoleon i (born august 15, 1769, ajaccio, corsica died may 5, 1821, st, helena island) french general, first consul (1799 1804), and emperor of the french (1804 1814/15), one of the most celebrated personages in the history of the west, he revolutionized military organization and training; sponsored the napoleonic code, the prototype of later civil-law codes; reorganized education; and established the long-lived concordat with the papacy.
+napoleon i (born august 15, 1769, ajaccio, corsica died may 5, 1821, saint helena island) french general, first consul (1799 1804), and emperor of the french (1804 1814/15), one of the most celebrated personages in the history of the west, he revolutionized military organization and training; sponsored the napoleonic code, the prototype of later civil-law codes; reorganized education; and established the long-lived concordat with the papacy.
 napoleon's many reforms left a lasting mark on the institutions of france and of much of western europe.
 but his driving passion was the military expansion of french dominion, and, though at his fall he left france little larger than it had been at the outbreak of the revolution in 1789, he was almost unanimously revered during his lifetime and until the end of the second empire under his nephew napoleon iii as one of history's great heroes.
 napoleon was born on corsica shortly after the island's cession to france by the genoese.
@@ -511,7 +511,7 @@ his inactivity undoubtedly contributed to the deterioration of his health.
 the man who for 20 years had played so great a role in the world and who had marched north, south, east, and west across europe could hardly be expected to endure the monotony of existence on a little island, aggravated by the self-imposed life of a recluse.
 he had also more intimate reasons for unhappiness: marie-louise sent no word to him, and he may have learned of her liaison with the austrian officer appointed to watch over her, adam, graf (count) von neipperg (whom she eventually married in secret without waiting for napoleon's death).
 nor did he have any news of his son, the former king of rome, who was now living in vienna with the title of duke of reichstadt.
-though the severity of sir hudson lowe has been much exaggerated, it is certain that this 'jailer', who arrived as governor of st, helena in april 1816, did nothing to make napoleon's life easier.
+though the severity of sir hudson lowe has been much exaggerated, it is certain that this 'jailer', who arrived as governor of saint helena in april 1816, did nothing to make napoleon's life easier.
 napoleon from the start disliked him as the former commander of the corsican rangers, a band of volunteers composed largely of enemies of the bonaparte family.
 always anxious to carry out his instructions exactly, lowe came into conflict with las cases.
 he saw las cases as napoleon's confidant and had him arrested and expelled.
@@ -540,7 +540,7 @@ in 1822 o'meara, in london, had his napoleon in exile; or, a voice from saint he
 thereafter the number of works in napoleon's honour increased continually; among them were victor hugo's 'ode à la colonne' ('ode to the column'), the 28 volumes of the victoires et conquêtes des français ('victories and conquests of the french'), edited by charles-louis-fleury panckoucke, and sir walter scott's life of napoleon buonaparte, emperor of the french.
 neither police action nor prosecutions could prevent books, pictures, and objects evoking the imperial saga from multiplying in france.
 after the july revolution of 1830, which created the 'bourgeois monarchy' under louis-philippe, thousands of tricolor flags appeared in windows, and the government had not only to tolerate the growth of the legend but even to promote it.
-in 1833 the statue of napoleon was put back on the top of the column in the place vendôme in paris, and in 1840 the king's son françois, prince de joinville, was sent in a warship to fetch the emperor's remains from st, helena to the banks of the seine in accordance with his last wishes.
+in 1833 the statue of napoleon was put back on the top of the column in the place vendôme in paris, and in 1840 the king's son françois, prince de joinville, was sent in a warship to fetch the emperor's remains from saint helena to the banks of the seine in accordance with his last wishes.
 a magnificent funeral was held in paris in december 1840, and napoleon's body was conveyed through the arc de triomphe in the place de l'étoile to entombment under the dome of the invalides.
 napoleon's nephew louis-napoléon exploited the legend in order to seize power in france.
 though his attempts at strasbourg in 1836 and at boulogne in 1840 were failures, it was chiefly because of the growth of the legend that he won election to the presidency of the second republic with an overwhelming majority in 1848 and was able to carry out the coup d'état of december 1851 and make himself emperor in 1852.
@@ -1284,4 +1284,4 @@ when napoleon abdicated in 1815 he named his son his successor as napoleon ii, b
 he was awarded the title of the duke of reichstadt in 1818 and died of tuberculosis aged 21, with no children.
 napoleon acknowledged one illegitimate son: charles léon (1806 1881) by eléonore denuelle de la plaigne.
 alexandre colonna-walewski (1810 1868), the son of his polish mistress maria walewska, was also widely known to be his child, as dna evidence has confirmed.
-he may have had further illegitimate offspring.
+he may have had further illegitimate offspring.