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	D-J \| Counties \| Arkansas politics, political history, counties, regions & military facts
		Napoleon was an important community in the early development of the state.
		In the 1870s, the Arkansas River began to claim Napoleon and the county seat was moved to Watson.
		Part of the county is in the Arkansas River Valley and the Ozark Mountains are in its northern borders.
	www.arkansasheritage.com /life_times/counties/d_j.asp (1149 words)

	Religion - Encyclopedia of Arkansas
		Arkansas Post (Arkansas County) was established near the mouth of the Arkansas River by Henri de Tonti in 1686.
		A separate Arkansas Conference was organized in Batesville (Independence County) in 1836, and the ninety-two members reported in 1816 grew to nearly 25,000 by 1861.
		The Presbytery of Arkansas was formed in 1835, and the Synod of Arkansas, consisting of three presbyteries, was constituted in 1852.
	encyclopediaofarkansas.net /encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryID=396 (4993 words)

	Arkansas's Confederate Generals
		Thomas H. Thomas H. Bradley, a brigadier general of the Arkansas state forces, was born in Williamson County, Tennessee, on July 25,1808, the son of Thomas and Margaret Bradley, farmers in that county.
		Napoleon Bonaparte Burrow was born in 1818 in Bedford County, Tennessee, the son of Banks Mitchum and Mary (Blanchard) Burrow.
		Hawthorn was not re-elected, and was reassigned to Arkansas in the Department of the Trans-Mississippi.
	www.civilwarhistory.com /_010600/othergenerals.htm (5938 words)

	Encyclopedia: Arkansas River
		The Arkansas River is a tributary of the Mississippi which flows east and southeast through Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma and the state of Arkansas.
		Fort Smith, situated at the junction of the Arkansas and Poteau rivers, is a city and one of the two county seats of Sebastian County, Arkansas.
		From 1819 the Adams-OnÃs Treaty set the Arkansas as part of the frontier between the United States and Spanish Mexico, which it remained until the annexation of Texas and Mexican-American War in 1846.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Arkansas-River (1385 words)

	Search Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Napoleon I -> The Consulate The Directory was overthrown by the coup of 18 Brumaire (Nov. 9-10, 1799), and the Consulate was established with Bonaparte as first consul.
		Napoleon III -> Emperor of the French In Nov., 1852, a new plebiscite overwhelmingly approved the establishment of the Second Empire, and Louis Napoleon became Emperor Napoleon III.
		Arkansas Post Arkansas Postär´kensô, community on the Arkansas River, SE Ark. Founded by the French in 1686 as a trading post, it is the oldest white settlement in the state; it became the capital of the Arkansas territory in 1819.
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		Bonaparte -> Napoleon's Siblings Joseph Bonaparte Joseph, 1768-1844, was the eldest of the children of Carlo and Letizia to survive infancy.
		Napoleon I -> Napoleon's Legacy The Napoleonic legend, the picture of a liberal conqueror spreading the French Revolution throughout Europe and of the quintessential Romantic man of action, was a potent factor in French history and helped make Napoleon's nephew French emperor as Napoleon III.
		Napoleon I -> The Empire While warfare languished, Napoleon took advantage of the plot of Georges Cadoudal against his life, seized and executed the duc d'Enghien, and had himself proclaimed emperor of the French by a subservient senate and tribunate (May, 1804).
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	Napoleon Bonaparte MCGLATHERY (1840 - 1920)
		Napoleon Bonaparte and Harriett Ann Maurine Renee (CAIN) MCGLATHERY, was born in Walker County, Alabama and died in Stone County, Arkansas.
		Napoleon Bonaparte and Harriett Ann Maurine Renee (CAIN) MCGLATHERY, was born in Alabama and was buried in Stone County, Arkansas.
		Napoleon Bonaparte and Harriett Ann Maurine Renee (CAIN) MCGLATHERY, was born in Arkansas and was buried in Stone County, Arkansas.
	www.prairienet.org /~sammcgla/five/sfmls/nb_ar.html (951 words)

	PBS - Napoleon: The Man and the Myth
		Napoleon curbed the irrationalities and terror that plagued France after the French Revolution which, but for, the order Napoleon imposed through force, threaten to cause France to degenerate into anarchy and mob violence.
		Napoleon was not a dictator in the sense of Stalin or Hitler or even Hussein.
		Napoleon was a master in raising and training mass armies, and in training commanders.
	www.pbs.org /empires/napoleon/n_myth/perspective/question4.html (1862 words)

	Biography of Napoleon Bonaparte Green (1816-1881)
		Napoleon Bonaparte GREEN married (1st) 27 February 1844 in Pike Co., Indiana, Elizabeth SHAWHAN, daughter of Joseph SHAWHAN and Elizabeth HILLMAN.
		Napoleon held custody of the children until settlement of their divorce.
		Napoleon was a shoemaker with his shop in Petersburg until 1867 when he removed to Grayville in White Co., Illinois.
	www.ken-lindsay.com /napoleon_b_green.htm (1461 words)

	Station Information - Arkansas River
		Its origin is in the Rockies near Leadville, Colorado, and its outlet is at the historic site of Napoleon, Arkansas.
		At its headwaters the Arkansas runs as a steep mountain torrent through the Rockies, dropping 4600 feet in 120 miles.
		Many nations of Native Americans lived near or along the Arkansas in its 1450-mile stretch, but the first Europeans to see the river were members of the Coronado expedition on June 29, 1541.
	www.stationinformation.com /encyclopedia/a/ar/arkansas_river.html (329 words)

	Napoleon, Ark.
		The Arkansas Gazette of September 29, 1835 announces that S.V.R. Ryan was appointed to Brigadier General of the Second Arkansas Militia by the President.
		The town of Napoleon was incorporated by an act of the General Assembly on January 6, 1851 and the date for the election of a mayor and five aldermen was set for the first Monday in March, 1851.
		In an interview with the Arkansas Gazette on April 16, 1933, Charles Taylor Harding states that he was born in Napoleon, saying, “I have been told many times by oldtimers that in 1858, Little Rock was the only town in Arkansas larger than Napoleon.
	www.rootsweb.com /~ardesha/napoleon.htm (2592 words)

	KidMagnet.com - The Ultimate Portal for Today's Kids (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're the boss." -- Anonymous Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one Arkansas The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.
		What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Arkansas "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
		Arkansas Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
	www.kidmagnet.com /Sports_and_Hobbies_Sports_Hockey_Ice_Hockey_Leagues_United_States_Arkansas.html (1671 words)

	Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Southern Arkansas
		Napoleon F.A. Hutt, one of the representative citizens of Miller County, was born in Alabama, August 22, 1832, being a son of Jacob B. and Thurza (Pipkin) Hutt, natives of Ontario, Canada, and Alabama, respectively.
		The former moved from Canada to Alabama in early manhood, and made his home in the latter State and Florida until his death, which occurred in 1852, in his fifty-second year; his death was preceded by that of his wife, who passed from earth in 1849, at the age of forty-two years.
		When quite a boy he received the appointment of assistant inspector of lumber and timber in the navy yard at Warrington, Fla. and served in that capacity for a number of years (until 1860), when, on account of ill health, he was obliged to quit the Government employ.
	freepages.family.rootsweb.com /~genroots1/biographical_and_historical_memo1.htm (644 words)

	Lewis and Clark
		These are (with the dates of their admission to the Union): Louisiana (1812), Missouri (1821), Arkansas (1836), Texas (1845), Iowa (1846), Minnesota (1858), Kansas (1861), Nebraska (1867), Colorado (1876), North Dakota (1889), South Dakota (1889), Montana (1889), Wyoming (1890), Oklahoma (1907), and New Mexico (1912).
		Napoleon needed money to finance a war he was planning against Great Britain, and he feared that once that war began, the United States would take advantage of the situation and try to seize Louisiana.
		And because Napoleon was in a hurry to finish the business, they finalized the deal without referring the matter back to President Jefferson.
	teacher.scholastic.com /activities/lewis_clark/purchase.htm (962 words)

	Historic Arkansas: Down the Mississippi - Napoleon, Arkansas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The only other towns of importance on the Arkansas bank of the river are Sterling, which lies at the mouth of the St. Francis River, and Helena, a rather thriving and vigorous community of five thousand inhabitants.
		It was in Napoleon that the man showed a casual passer by on a steamboat a pocket full of ears, and with a grin announced that he was among the boys while they were “having a frolic last night.” Murder, daily, was the rule, and not the exception.
		In war time, Napoleon was an important rendezvous for gunboats and other warlike craft; the United States Marine Hospital there had been seized by the Confederates when Arkansas seceded, but was recovered as soon as the Mississippi was partially opened.
	stellar-one.com /mississippi_river/0044_napoleon_arkansas.htm (334 words)

	Napoleon Bonaparte Buford Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Napoleon Bonaparte Buford was born into Kentucky's plantation society; the West Pointer (1827) served eight years in the artillery and as a professor at his alma mater.
		He served in the very early stages of the Vicksburg Campaign but his appointment as a major general was not confirmed by the Senate and it expired on March 4, 1863.
		On leave at the end of the war, he was brevetted major general and was mustered out on August 24, 1865; he was later a government appointee.
	www.civilwarhome.com /nbufordbio.htm (169 words)

	napoleon
		Private—Enlisted at Napoleon, Arkansas, May 7, 1861; transferred to Co. D, 15th Arkansas Infantry, July 23, 1861; absent on detached duty as a tinner at Selma, Alabama, since July 23, 1862; paroled at Shreveport, Louisiana, June 7, 1865; born in Virginia, c1834; listed in Desha county 1860 census; occupation tinner.
		Private—Enlisted at Napoleon, Arkansas, May 7, 1861; transferred to Co. D, 15th Arkansas Infantry, July 23, 1861; appointed first sergeant, November 9, 1861; appointed captain, February 6, 1862; slightly wounded in the leg at Murfreesboro, Tennessee, December 31, 1862; drowned near Chattanooga while the regiment was crossing the Tennessee River, July 9, 1863.
		Private—Enlisted at Napoleon, Arkansas, May 7, 1861; transferred to Co. D, 15th Arkansas Infantry, July 23, 1861; served throughout the war and was paroled on May 2, 1865; took the oath of allegiance at Nashville, Tennessee, July 25, 1865; name also shown as Wood.
	www.couchgenweb.com /civilwar/napoleon.html (2662 words)

	Mississippi River Ruins Napoleon » The Arkansas News
		ARKANSAS CITY — The floods of this unusually rainy spring of 1883 have completed the ruin of the old town of Napoleon, located on the Mississippi just below the mouth of the Arkansas.
		Napoleon was laid out in 1837 and became an important river port.
		Napoleon was the county seat of Desha County until 1874, when the seat of justice was moved to Watson after the jail and other county buildings caved into the river.
	www.oldstatehouse.com /educational_programs/classroom/arkansas_news/detail.asp?id=613&issue_id=1&page=3 (234 words)

	Arkansas and the Louisiana Purchase : History & Heritage
		The Arkansas Department of Parks and Tourism is in compliance with the Freedom of Information.
		On October 27, 1815, a survey party led by Prospect K. Robbins headed north from the confluence of the Arkansas and Mississippi rivers to establish a north-south line to be known as the Fifth Principal Meridian.
		Both the meridian and the baseline would later be extended, and land surveys for all or parts of the Louisiana Purchase states west of the Mississippi would subsequently be measured from this point in an eastern Arkansas headwater swamp.
	www.arkansas.com /things-to-do/history-heritage/la-purchase.asp (508 words)

	Chapitre 26
		Napoleon was very happy with the frank symbolism of offering an enormous gift that doubled the surface area of the United States.
		The upstart Napoleon had overturned the corrupt Directory and, intending to consolidate his power in France and Europe, wanted no problems with the United States.
		Napoleon did not want to sell or even rent the river mouth, but to sell Louisiana in its entirety...
	www.napoleonicsociety.com /english/Life_Nap_Chap26.htm (1320 words)

	Arkansas River (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Through Oklahoma and Arkansas, the riverdeepens and builds once again into a navigable body of water somewhere between Fort Smith, Arkansas and PineBluff, according to the season.
		From 1819 the Adams-OnísTreaty set the Arkansas as part of the frontier between the United States and Spanish Mexico, which it remaineduntil the annexation of Texas and Mexican-American War in 1846.
		In contrast to the state Arkansas, which is always pronounced ARE-kan-saw, theriver is often pronounced are-KAN-zis.
	www.therfcc.org /RFCC/arkansas-river-58621.html (374 words)

	Chronicles of Oklahoma
		The Arkansas and Red rivers were the principal highways for traffic and travel in the country now within the boundaries of Oklahoma until the building of the first railroads in the Southwest a few years after the period of the Civil War.
		The first steamboat to ascend the Arkansas River to Fort Smith was the "Robert Thompson" which landed at that post about the middle of April, 1822, with a keel-boat in tow.
		A large number of steamboats on the Arkansas were wrecked on the branches of submerged trees; though some of these were raised and repaired, others were a total loss.
	digital.library.okstate.edu /Chronicles/v008/v008p065.html (8518 words)

	pg 009: Geology of North America: with two reports on the prairies of Arkansas and Texas, the Rocky Mountains of New ...
		This alluvial deposit forms the richest agricultural portion of the State of Arkansas, and as it constitutes the whole of the basin which extends from Little-Rock to the Mississippi, and is always in horizontal beds, these rocks, it will be seen, offer no obstacle to the construction of a railroad.
		These rocks continue for three or four miles along the river, and are formed of fl slates, of gray quartzose metamorphic masses, traversed by veins of white quartz, having the same direction as the mountains.
		Here begins the fine coal-basin of Arkansas, which is only a continuation of the immense coalfield of Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, and which extends even to Fort Belknap, Rio Brazos, and to the Rio San Saba, Texas.
	www.lib.utexas.edu /books/landscapes/publications/txu-oclc-60883848/txu-oclc-60883848-009.html (544 words)

	University of Arkansas, Fayetteville: SIZER GUIDE TO SELECTED MANUSCRIPT COLLECTIONS
		Material pertains particularly to Brough's academic career at the University of Arkansas and elsewhere; to his several political campaigns; to political and governmental affairs of his gubernatorial administration, especially as regards the racial conflict at Elaine, Arkansas in 1919; and to his role as a lecturer on the Redpath Chautauqua circuit, 1918-1924.
		Cardwell's acquisition of lands northwest of Fayetteville, Arkansas, 1849-1860; to the war experiences of his son, Thomas A. Cardwell, on duty in Mississippi as a private in Co. E, 1st Battalion, Arkansas Cavalry, Confederate States Army, 1861-1863; and to the granting of post-war amnesty to his son, Adison F. Cardwell of Washington County, Arkansas, 1866.
		Williams and captioned "To the People of Arkansas," urging the electorate to vote February 18, 1861 in the election called to decide whether a secession convention is to be held March 2, 1861; a plat of a part of the city of Little Rock, Arkansas, dated December 26, 1839.
	libinfo.uark.edu /SpecialCollections/findingaids/sizer/index.html (10059 words)

	Arkansas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Arkansas was a slave state that was admitted as a pair with Michigan in 1837.
		Arkansas seceded from the Union on May 6, 1861 during the American Civil War and was later readmitted after Reconstruction.
		Arkansas is a beautiful land of mountains and valleys, thick forests and fertile plains.
	www.websters-online-dictionary.org /Ar/Arkansas.html (2562 words)

	Historic Arkansas; Down the Mississippi - Arkansas Rivers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The Arkansas river journeys two thousand miles to meet the Mississippi coming eastward from the mountains of Colorado, and the entrance from it into the White River, near its mouth, is easy.
		Time was when a journey up the Arkansas River was not devoid of thrilling adventure when the passengers landing at Little Rock laid their bowie-knives and pistols beside their knives and forks, on the hotel table, at supper; and when along the river bank could be heard the pistol shot from hour to hour.
		Wild life and careless culture of the soil, disregard of humanizing influences, and a general spirit of indifference characterized large numbers of the people while others were as orderly, enterprising and industrious as those to be found in any of the older States.
	www.stellar-one.com /mississippi_river/0046_arkansas_rivers.htm (362 words)

	Ghost Town on the Mississippi River » The Arkansas News
		Located in Desha County where the Arkansas River meets the Mississippi River, the town was the shipping point for much of the trade of southeastern Arkansas.
		All river towns were wild and rowdy places in those days, and Napoleon had the reputation of being among the worst.
		Napoleon, located at a low place on the river bank, suffered regularly from floods.
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