To: SunkenCiv
And even if Nappy overlooked that, one would think that the Kaiser would have remembered Napoleon. And for that matter, that *Hitler* would have remembered both of them... Or all three... Those who fail to learn from History...
And the lesson is, I know what happened to them, but I'm smarter than they were, so I'll succeed where they failed, because...
46 posted on
05/31/2009 5:38:30 PM PDT by
ApplegateRanch
(The mob got President Barabbas; America got shafted)
To: ApplegateRanch
Success in battle is, more often than not, due to what for want of a better term we call good luck. :’) Napoleon should have concentrated on building French industry and keeping the British off the continent, rather than worrying about what the Russians were doing.
53 posted on
05/31/2009 7:32:27 PM PDT by
SunkenCiv
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