This story is based on a true historical events. In Napoleon’s Gold, Ryan is convicted of piracy and treason and is sentenced to death. But an admirer of the young mariner, Queen Marie Antoinette of France, pleads for mercy and King George agrees to commute Ryan’s sentence to imprisonment. After the war, Ryan is released and returns to France but he has no ship, no crew and no money. Prospects seem grim until one day Ryan meets a promising entrepreneur named Joseph Bonaparte and his younger brother, a major in the French Army named Napoleon. The two ambitious brothers crave wealth and power and believe that in Ryan, they have found a useful pawn…
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