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Run rabbit run. I'm Jason Horton. I'm Rebecca Le pod. Run rabbit run.

I'm Jason Horton.

I'm Rebecca Lebe.

And this is Ghost Town. While most people think Napoleon's most humiliating defeat was at Waterloo, I'd like to offer another embarrassing moment in the famed French military leader and eventual emperor's history.

The time that he was attacked by

thousands of rabbits, creating a scene less of heroism and celebration of the toughness of Napoleon

Bonaparte, and more like Easter Bunny nightmare cringe. Today on Ghost Town, the story of Napoleon Bonaparte's bizarre, random, and slightly unexplained, rabbit

attack. Now, Napoleon was at the peak of his power in July 1807 after signing the treaties

of Tilsett, ending the war

between the French Empire and Imperial Russia. That's the background. Okay. In celebration of this

historic event, a rabbit hunt was organized by Napoleon's chief of staff, Alexandre Berthier.

He arranged a lovely little outdoor get-together at a park he owned within Paris,

and was ecstatic when the emperor accepted, along with a veritable who's-who of the French military.

Berthier made sure to do everything he could to make the hunt as pleasing for Napoleon as possible,

and the day started with a splendid brunch.

Then, on to the rabbit hunt, the main event. Now, Berthier had not been able to source the rabbits

...