For twenty years, Napoleon ruled Europe at his will, till his ultimate defeat in the battle of Waterloo, in 1815. Imprisoned, he was exiled by the British in St. Helena, one of the most isolated islands in the world, in Southern Atlantic Ocean.He mysteriously died there in May 5, 1821.
Most historians accept the official explanation that Napoleon died from stomach cancer.Some authorities have accepted the verdict of stomach cancer.  As recently as March, 2003, national newspapers printed an article of a study confirming that cancer was the cause of death.Others have not agreed.
Another research shows that Napoleon was killed by… his own doctors. They say doctors killed Napoleon through over-zealous treatment.But they also say it is more likely that it was the treatments given to Napoleon in an attempt to cure him that actually killed him.He was given regular doses of antimony potassium tartrate, or tartar emetic a poisonous colorless salt which was used to make him vomit. He was also given regular enemas.
The final straw was probably 600 milligrams of mercuric chloride given as a purge two days before his death.
So this may be the most reasonable explanation of Napoleon’s death.

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