Napoleon Bonaparte Toy Soldier

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Bonaparte changed the course of history for the United States of America when he sold the Louisiana Territory for less than three cents per acre in the year 1803. Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States at the time, paid only 15 million for the Territory (828,000 square miles) that stretched all the way from the Gulf of Mexico to Canada. Overnight, the purchase more than doubled the size of the United States and paved the way for the eventual expansion of the U.S. west to the Pacific.

Urban legend has it, that a small band of Bonaparte loyalists sailed to the Island of Saint Helena (a British overseas territory located in the South Atlantic Ocean) to rescue the Emperor, who was imprisoned there. Their objective was to deliver Bonaparte to a house in New Orleans that was put aside by the mayor of New Orleans. However, the death of Bonaparte in 1821 halted the plot to ever bring the Emperor to Louisiana. Today that house is called the "Napoleon House" and serves as one of New Orleans oldest and most famous European-style café's in the historic French Quarter.

Our exclusive Napoleon Bonaparte toy soldier stands 54 millimeters high (slightly over two and a half inches tall), is 1:32 scale, and is made of white metal. The soldier is hand painted in painstaking detail by the very finest toy soldier painters in Russia. The toy soldier is of museum quality and is sure to compliment any desk or study of a serious history buff.