# Napolean's Constapation

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [November 18, 2000, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/napoleans-constapation/41692 "2000-11-18T00:52:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![corpuient](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/838e76/32.png) [@corpuient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corpuient)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 2000, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/napoleans-constapation/41692/1 "2000-11-18T00:52:59Z")

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I heard that Napolean lost Waterloo because he had a serious case on constapation, is this true, or was their another medical cause for his defeat???

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**Author:** ![dragonlady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5f8ce5/32.png) [@dragonlady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dragonlady)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 2000, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/napoleans-constapation/41692/2 "2000-11-18T04:43:27Z")

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I heard it was hemmoroids. That he was in too much pain to ride a horse, thus he couldn’t see the battlefield.