We shall be Polish.
Bonaparte has given us the example
Of how we should prevail.
Lyrics from the Polish National Anthem.
Monument to Napoleon in Warsaw
Posted on 08/18/2019 7:33:20 PM PDT by Perseverando
Except this is French History. And Napoleon wasn’t French. He was Corsican.
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His tactics are still studied today in military training. Is he the G.O.A.T? It’s very hard to say, as you have to consider Caesar, Alexander, Genghis Khan, and Sun Tzu. But in the modern era, yes Napoleon is the Greatest Of All Time.
Wasn’t he about four feet tall?
Bkmk
“Little men hitting each other. That’s what I like. “
We got ABBA, thanks to him.
In 1803, Napoleon was badly needing money for his army. He also feared Haiti's costly slave rebellion would spread to the French Louisiana Territory.
Napoleon decided to sell nearly a million square miles to the United States, during the administration of President Jefferson, for around $15 million dollars. This is known as the Louisiana Purchase.
He was 5 feet, 5 inches. Not exactly tall, but not the midget he’s been depicted as.
“But in the modern era, yes Napoleon is the Greatest Of All Time.”
Even though he lost half his army in the invasion of Russia?
Napoleon brought order to France. Good for him. But then he terrorized Europe from Spain to Moscow. And he ended his life exiled on a remote island.
So I really donn’t see all the adoration he gets today. Napoleon was a butcher, and a failed butcher at that.
The fact that he invaded Russia was an accomplishment in of itself.
Average at best.
Didn’t he just get a LOT of guys dead for no good reason and lose TIME after TIME at the end?
What a genius! :)
> Even though he lost half his army in the invasion of Russia? <
The estimates vary, but most historians think Napoleon lost around 80% of his army in Russia. I read an article awhile back that said they are still occasionally finding French bones along the retreat route.
Many, many men died for his failed dreams of glory.
But he definitely wasn’t a cheese-eating surrender monkey!
Napoleon: Italian by way of Corsica
Marie Curie: Polish
Yves Montand: Italian (real name Ivo Livi)
Charles Aznavour: Armenian
Great Frenchpersons all...
> Didn’t he just get a LOT of guys dead for no good reason and lose TIME after TIME at the end? <
That is my view as well (see post #16). Napoleon lost around 80% of his army in Russia. So he raised another army, which was decisively defeated at Leipzig. Then after he escaped from Elba, he raised yet another army. That army was decisively defeated at Waterloo.
This great “genius” caused the deaths of hundreds of thousands of men. And for what? For his own personal glory.
Amazing what he accomplished in 15 years.
History is defined by the will of single individuals.
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