Napoleon got his start clearing the mobs from the streets of Paris. He was an artillery officer, and grapeshot is extremely effective at crowd control and dispersal.
I’m sure the CBS crew wishes they had a “whiff of grapeshot” available at the time Lara Logan was hauled off to be gangraped. Then again, maybe not. Liberals say “don’t fight back.” Plus, they don’t believe in being armed.
Off topic but relating to Bonaparte, the damage from his whiff of grapeshot is still there in the buildings in Paris. I forgot which building we saw but you could still see the holes from the grapeshot in the building. Pretty cool.
But then we were on a tour for the 60th Anniversary & the Normandy invasion and the Battle of the Bulge, so from the Pegasus Bridge to Malmedy, we saw a lot of buildings with shot, shell and bullet damage. It was a very good tour and sobering.
The only problem for me is that it was an all WWII tour, which of course was great, but being on the soil of France & Germany, I couldn’t stop seeing the ghosts of ancient Roman Legions building Fort Paris, feudal knights touring the realms of their Lords and Ladies, Joan of Arc leading her troops to victory, Musketeershordes of young Frenchmen and Germans ground up in the machine gun fire of World War I, and of course Napoleon’s Guard lancers in full charge.
France is so steeped in history, being there is overwhelming for a history nut and goes way beyond just any one conflict.