Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte was the heir and great hope to restoring the Napoleonic legacy in France, was aged just 23, when he was killed by the Zulus. But what was the relative of France’s greatest military general doing fighting the Zulus in a British colonial war? This is the story of the Death of the Prince Imperial, and with it the dreams of a Bonaparte revival in France.
01 June 2025
The Death of the Prince Imperial ~ Zulu War 1879
Louis-Napoléon, Prince Imperial, died on this day 156 years ago.
Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte was the heir and great hope to restoring the Napoleonic legacy in France, was aged just 23, when he was killed by the Zulus. But what was the relative of France’s greatest military general doing fighting the Zulus in a British colonial war? This is the story of the Death of the Prince Imperial, and with it the dreams of a Bonaparte revival in France.
Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte was the heir and great hope to restoring the Napoleonic legacy in France, was aged just 23, when he was killed by the Zulus. But what was the relative of France’s greatest military general doing fighting the Zulus in a British colonial war? This is the story of the Death of the Prince Imperial, and with it the dreams of a Bonaparte revival in France.
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