Napoleon of Belmont

Napoleon Crowned King of Italy in Milan Cathedral by Tancredi Scarpelli

Order of the Iron Crown

Posted on July 17, 2025 by Royal Rosamond Press

The Royal Janitor

Victoria Bond watched Professor John Von John work on his large ‘Last Audience of the Habsburg’ that he deeply admired, as did Miriam Starfish, who now had her own cable show ‘What’s In The Stars’? She did this show in the buff, wearing a Sherlock Holmes hat and pretended to smoke a Mershum pipe. She was accused of stealing the brand of Doctor Jean Scota of Stanford.

John was holding a orb that was seven inches in diameter that shimmered with many colors as it responded to the subtle touch of his fingers. This was his Art Keyboard. Suspended over his head was a ring abut the size of a crown, from where a Art Laser moved over the light sensitive surface. Images of the family of Empress Zita appeared over the unfinished children, whose entry was prepared with white roses. John wore a belt that transferred energy to his fingers and crown chakra that was amplified by the Art Crown, thus, John had leaped over the main hurdle of Art generated by Artificial Intelligence. He eliminated the Middle Man, the typical computer keyboard and main drive. The new model of The Wand of John allowed the user to suspend their fingers over the orb, and using subtle energy flow to type the letters. The owner of INFEL of Oregon, paid John a billion dollars for his invention, that would produced eighty billion in sales, and save the economy of Oregon.

Working on the medals worn by the most of the males, Victoria noted they all were wearing The Order of the Iron Cross. She grew up in the College of Arms. Using her old fashioned keyboard she brought up an image of Napoleon holding the Iron Crown. and is about to crown himself. “Why?” asked Victoria, uttering no words. Then she saw it. There was smoke rising from the Emperor.

“Is tht the holy ghost?” Victoria said aloud.

“What did you say?” asked the proffessor.

This conversation would be compared to

“Come here Watson. I need you!” Consider the RCA dog. The Pope received a telegram.

“The Holy Ghost – is real!”

To be continued.

I began this blog about 7:20 AM on July 17, 2025. and finished at 9:00 AM. I am going to publish The Royal Janitor’ as a serial for Royal Rosamond Press. I will be setting up a donation button. I am seeking financial independence so I can SEE without obstructions. I will have Victoria Bond cover the President’s visit to Alcatraz, for her newspaper The Bohemian Democrat Register. I am inventing a New Journalism with built in Psychic Holy Ghost.

EXTRA! EXTRA!

Continued

As JJ applied the finishing touches to his masterpiece, Victoria roamed the internet. She found an article by John Prescowitz, who claimed Napoleon disguised himself as a Franciscan Monk and ended up living with the Francsisan in Belmont Californa.

“Hello! Mr. Presco. You don’t know me, but I know all about you. My name is Victoria…Victoria…Bond. Is it your contention Napoleon was smuggled to America by the Franciscans, and Count Leonetto Cipriani brought some of the Lombard gold in a covered wagon train – and buried it under Ralston Hall.?”

“I am amazed you ask me this question. We do not know each other.” and the call was terminated.

John von John looked over at his Art Studio Mate, was she going to have another screaming meemies mind fuck fit!

“What is the name of the captain we spoke to yesterday?”

“Who?”

“The man who is claiming he owns Alcatraz! I have a photographic memory. He;s wearing the Order of the Iron Crown! Rewind that news account!”

“I’ll be damned! I just put the badge of this order on all the Habsburg men! What the hell is going on? This is more than synchronicity. Why don’t you give him a call?

Victoria – was on it!

“Hello!”

“Hi! My name is Victoria Bond and I own a local neewspaper The Bohemian Democatic Register. Do you mind if I put you on visual-call!”

“Please!”

JvonJ put down his crystal ball and studied the two beautiful people on the split screen – taking each other in. It was a….Living Masterpiece. JJ hit – record. He knew he could get in trouble. A minute went by. John Benton, broke the ice

“Listen Mss…..?”

“Bond…Victoria….Bond!”

“Miss Bond. I am a very busy man, I assume you want to interview me, I’m having a spud canon battle with the President lf the United States over who owns Alcatraz. I would like you to come on board my yacht. You get exclusive coverage. If you like , you can stay at my mansion at Black Point. I can send my Lear Jet to get you. I will be the pilot!”

CLICK!

Victory stood in the middle of her vast studio at the British Art Depatment, making tiny circles, looking pale….and confused!

“What did I just do! I feel like I’m in a pumpkin pulled by mice!”

‘To be continued

John Rudolph Benton de Belmont

Posted on July 30, 2025 by Royal Rosamond Press

NPR History Dept.

What If Napoleon Had Come To America?

February 10, 201511:03 AM ET

By 

Linton Weeks

Portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte

The New York Public Library Digital Collections.

Two hundred years ago this year, in June of 1815, Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated at Waterloo by a coalition of countries — including Austria, Prussia, Russia and the United Kingdom. Though he wound up in exile on the remote South Atlantic island of St. Helena, he contemplated escaping to America.

What if Napoleon had come to the New World?

“The answer to your question varies depending on what year Napoleon might have arrived,” says Shannon Selin, a writer of historical fiction in Vancouver, British Columbia, and author of the novel Napoleon in America. “He seriously considered escaping to the United States from France in July 1815, and there were several reported plots to rescue him from St. Helena between 1816 and 1821.”

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The timing, Selin says, “affects both the geopolitical possibilities and Napoleon’s physical capacity. By 1818, he was already suffering symptoms of the stomach cancer that went on to kill him.”

Napoleon died in 1821 at age 51. But the last few years of his life led to folkloric stories of intrigue and possibility of life in America — on a grand scale.

New Worlds To Conquer

After Waterloo, political pressure convinced Napoleon to abdicate, writes Ines Murat — a distant relative of Napoleon — in her book Napoleon and the American Dream. As the Prussian army advanced on his home outside of Paris, he was reading a book about the geographical and botanical features of the New World. He even had picked out a pseudonym to use in America: Colonel Muiron.

“When Napoleon imagined his life in the United States,” Murat wrote, “it was as a private individual and devotee of science. He had written in his abdication that his ‘political life was over.’ “

In a letter to a contemporary, Napoleon mused, “For me, idleness would be the cruelest torture. Without armies or an empire I see only science as influencing my spirit.” And he planned to use America as his base camp.

One of his relatives wrote to another: “You’ve surely heard of the latest misfortunes of the Emperor … He’s going to the United States, where we shall all join him. He’s quite calm and courageous.”

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His plan, Murat wrote, was to move 3 million gold francs to an American bank. He instructed underlings to ready his imperial library, the fine china and linen, enough furniture for two homes and a score of hunting guns. He also planned to take plenty of horses and 15 stable keepers.

Stephen Girard

Library of Congress

A Man With A Plan

Meanwhile, according to a 1902 story in the Baltimore American — reprinted in many American newspapers — a Philadelphia man named Stephen Girard plotted to spirit Napoleon away from his enemies and bring him to America.

A banker and a philanthropist, Girard was a fascinating character. Born in Bordeaux, he moved to Pennsylvania and became one of this country’s wealthiest citizens in the early 19th century. Some say he worked with Napoleon and the French — on behalf of President Thomas Jefferson and the United States — to secure the Louisiana Purchase expansion in 1803.

Tradition has it that Girard’s rescue plan, apparently, was to somehow transport Napoleon to the shores of Virginia and into a hideaway on the Eastern Shore of Maryland.

In France, Napoleon fled to a seaport and prepared to board a swift clipper ship — provided by Girard, according to the Baltimore American. The idea was to set sail for America. But the harbor was full of enemy ships. Napoleon threw himself on the mercy of the Brits and they, in turn, banished Napoleon to “the barren island of St. Helena.”

Rumors abounded in America, however. Ines Murat wrote about one traditional tale:

Napoleon Bonaparte

The New York Public Library Digital Collections.

“From New York it was announced that Napoleon had embarked from France with a few faithful followers for the United States. ‘If he has not fallen into the hands of the British cruisers, this celebrated man is at this moment near our shores to seek asylum from the persecutions of the Old World.’ As word spread that Napoleon was approaching the coast of Virginia, Colonel King, commander of the militia of Somerset County in Maryland, summoned his men and hurried off to greet the hero of the day.”

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Napoleon Bonaparte never made it to the United States.

Complex Situation

Historical novelist Shannon Selin has found no credible evidence of the Girard story. “Given the time it took for messages to cross the Atlantic back then, there would not have been sufficient time for word of Napoleon’s abdication to reach the United States and for a return message sent from the United States to reach Napoleon before he’d made his decision to give himself up to the British.”

She refers to the memoirs of Napoleon’s valet Louis-Joseph Marchand: “Captain Besson, commanding a Danish ship, placed himself at the disposal of the Emperor, promising to take him to the United States and to hide him so as to escape all searches of the cruisers: but hiding in the hold of a vessel if it were taken was not a method he found worthy of him.”

Historians offer other scenarios for a Napoleonic plan to escape to the New World.

In any case, Napoleon dreamed of traveling to America. And what if he had come in 1815?

Selin sees several possibilities:

  • Napoleon might have settled peacefully, probably near his brother Joseph, who was living in New Jersey and had land in upstate New York. Through his supporters in Europe, Napoleon would likely have tried to undermine the Bourbon regime and drum up support for his return to France, or for his young son to be placed on the French throne.
  • Napoleon might have attempted to gather his followers and peacefully start a colony within the United States. This is something he fantasized about when he was on St. Helena. Bonapartists actually tried starting colonies in Alabama and in Texas — which was then under Spanish rule — without much luck.
  • In search of a new throne, Napoleon might have tried to launch an invasion of one of Spain’s American colonies, which were then seeking independence. The most obvious candidate would have been Mexico, via Texas. In Napoleon in America, Selin imagine how this might have happened.

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In 1816, according to Ines Murat, Napoleon read of his brother Joseph’s safe passage to America. The next year he remarked to someone: “My great mistake was to turn to the English and to wind up on St. Helena. If I were in America, everything would go well, whereas here, everything goes badly. It’s all an error.”

Mediography

Napoleon and America” by Pascal Cazottes, International Napoleonic Society

The Secret Plot to Rescue Napoleon by Submarine” by Mike Dash, Smithsonian magazine

The Bonapartes in America by Clarence Edward Macartney and Gordon Dorrance

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