Re: Napoleon, was he that great?
Fixed.Originally Posted by KARTLOS
He may have done some fine pieces of generalship earlier in his career, but apart from that he was a bloodthirsty meglomaniac who in the end got most of his soldiers killed.
I'll leave the last word to Dostoevsky
"Napoleon can storm Toulon, stage a massacre in Paris, forget about an army in Egypt, throw away half a million men in the Moscow expidition and then get away with a witty phrase in Vilna"
"I request permanent reassignment to the Gallic frontier. Nay, I demand reassignment. Perhaps it is improper to say so, but I refuse to fight against the Greeks or Macedonians any more. Give my command to another, for I cannot, I will not, lead an army into battle against a civilized nation so long as the Gauls survive. I am not the young man I once was, but I swear before Jupiter Optimus Maximus that I shall see a world without Gauls before I take my final breath."
Senator Augustus Verginius
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