Gianni Dagli Orti / The Art Archive at Art Resource ... France and depose him again, Napoleon acted swiftly, leaving Paris on June 12 and striking north to defeat the Anglo-Allied army under ...

But as a painting — painstakingly ... As it happened, that same year many of Napoleon's soldiers in Haiti died of yellow fever. Those who didn't were defeated by what was left of Toussaint's ...

The initial commission proved slightly premature when Napoleon returned from exile on the island of Elba but it continued in earnest after the French leader’s defeat at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815.