To: LS
Actually Berthier died just a few days before Waterloo, watching allied troops from a window in his home in Germany.
Fell? Pushed? Jumped? No one knows. But he didn’t join Napoleon for the Hundred Days, so apparently he had seen enough of war.
37 posted on
04/25/2008 12:05:18 PM PDT by
Cheburashka
(Liberalism: a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.)
To: Cheburashka
"Actually Berthier died just a few days before Waterloo, watching allied troops from a window in his home in Germany. Fell? Pushed? Jumped? No one knows. "
The French know. What do their archives say?
yitbos
42 posted on
04/25/2008 5:18:45 PM PDT by
bruinbirdman
("Those who control language control minds." - Ayn Rand)
To: Cheburashka
I thought it was longer before. Yes, the jury is out on how he died. But it was more than Berthier. Napoleon had already lost his best marshalls to death, defection, or fatigue.
47 posted on
04/26/2008 7:05:46 AM PDT by
LS
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