Quote Originally Posted by Romanus View Post
He said that his brother was a good fellow. Napoleon himself was a tyrant and dictator who ruined our country, destroyed what was left of our industry and trade and conscripted our manhood. The french had been robbing us blind since 1795 when they where allowed to march in with the help of the so-called exiled patriots. Freedom and liberty my arse.
I see that underneath your name it says: 'Fearful Jesuit'.

The Dutch Catholics were emancipated by the Revolutionaries. For such, amongst others, was the 'tyranny' the French armies brought: freedom of religion.

The worth of the nationalist-protestant-monarchist variant of Dutch history, I shall decide with my bummy-bum, in a moment when I visit the toilette.


Quote Originally Posted by Swordsmaster
I will cease to derail the discussion onto the nature of power and allow it to return to Charles
We are going of on all sorts of tangents in this thread. Your thoughts about the nature of power are not more off-topic than Cromwell, Napoleon or republicanism.

By all means debate your preference for monarchs if you feel like it. Where's the fun if we don't disagree with one another?