You’ll find Napoleon’s ghostly remains beneath the waters of the Mississippi River, where this once-bustling Arkansas port town of 2,000 residents met its demise. Founded in the 1820s and named after Bonaparte, Napoleon thrived through steamboat trade until the Civil War brought military occupation in 1862. A fateful decision to cut through a protective island, combined with floods and erosion, completely erased the town by the 1880s. The town’s dramatic transformation from prosperity to underwater ruins holds surprising revelations about nature’s power over human ambition.
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9.1 Are There Any Remaining Artifacts From Napoleon That Can Be Viewed Today?…