>Thirty years later, as an old man living in Venice, little children in the street would point and say, "There goes the man who betrayed Napoleon." He died in Venice in March 1852, the last living Napoleonic marshal.Grim.
Brvtal...
>>17432845>tfw you can't even call Nappy an overrated, warmongering retard without looking the part of a fool because the man simply won that hard all the way to the top, and then instead of being a fag and running away to 'mmurica he just willingly gives himself up to the one country that he couldn't beat before pissing in their face and escaping to nearly do it all over againVGH... I KNEEL
>>17432903>If the decisive French victories you delivered brought you to this, of what use were those victories?
>>17432912>you didn't really win unless you consolidated your empire and left it to a bumbling retard of an heir who would fuck it all up anyways Maybe the decisive victories were the friends you made along the way...
>>17432845Ragusa did nothing wrong
>>17432945Better a bumbling retard of an heir than watching it all get handed back to the Bourbons, who managed to piss off the French enough they staged another revolution. Twice.
>>17432912To change the mind of people so hard that nationalism, constitutions, law codes and civil right are now mainstream while absolute monarchy does not exist anymore. The problem was also he won too hard and so easily peoples started getting personnal about it and hated it so much they acted irrationaly just to destroy HIM.
>>17434606>The problem was also he won too hard and so easily peoples started getting personnal about it and hated it so much they acted irrationaly just to destroy HIM.The same was true of Louis XIV and he left the Bourbons much more powerful than he found them.
>>17434651>LouisVGH... what could have been.Nappy really should have spent more time studying him over Caesar and Alexander. His plans to take the East before he got absolutely mogged at the Nile was retarded as all fuck.
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>>17434689>either winning or ruining the battleKEKwho are these madlads?
>>17434739Ney and Murat, both cavalry officers, both shitheads.Napoleon once said something about Ney being brilliant at the head of a cavalry charge, and that outside of that he was a idiot. When Napoleon came back from Elba he switched sides back to the emperor and was then shot for treason.Murat was a real social climber, the son of a innkeeper who managed to become Boney's brother in law, and landed a spot as the King of Naples, then he got the bright idea that if he betrayed Napoleon he would be allowed to keep his throne, he died in disgrace after all of this.
>>17432845Napoleon destroyed Venice as an independent country, so fuck these retarded zoomer kids who don't even remember their legacy.
>>17435322Murat is very relateable, especially the part where he switched side to keep his throne, went back to Napoleon's side during the 100 days even though Nappy didn't want to see him, fought a losing battle against the allies because he didn't want to be known as a two-faced traitor, and ended up executed. Very believable character, I'd probably done the same things.
>>17435350>Turns the Neapolitan army into most fashionable army of Europe>The cossacks loved him for his over-the-top style>In front of his firing platoon, he cried: "My friends, if you wish to spare me, aim at my heart."
>>17435322>>17435350>>17435382Holy fucking kino>going from an inn keepers son to the King of Naples in turn-of-the-century France K I N O INOThis is the kind of historical narrative that I keep coming here for
>>17434689Not a bad tier list desu
