Napoleon died on May 5th, 1821 on the distant island of St. Helena in the Atlantic, where he was kept as a prisoner of war by the British. The official reason of his death was stomach cancer, an ulcer, according to doctors. But mystery and conspiracy theories have alway surrounded his last days of confinement, and some suggest he was slowly poisoned with arsenic by the British. Nevertheless , a medical study concluded in 2006 and published in 2007, determined that the original forensic report is accurate.
Lincoln ran on a political platform opposed to the expansion of slavery in the territories. His election served as the immediate impetus for the outbreak of the Civil War.
