But was he a good general?
>>18010739Napoleon never got thumbed and captured during a battle.
>>18010739Didnt he suck?
He rarely coordinated troop movements effectively, which hurt campaigns like the Mexican–American War.
im mexican and ive never heard or seen anyone call him "the napoleon of the west"
He was terrible. Ludopatic personality
>>18011276I think he was an average Mexican. He wasn't extraordinary, he knew his limits, he knew of he became emperor he'd get assassinated. He coasted on his name and legacy and probably had a bunch of shady business dealings. When he fought a real battle he was shown for the fool he was
>>18010739>the Napoleon of the west??Isn't France also in the west??
>>18011296We don't talk about secret France
>Napoleon of the WestA challenger arises
>>18011305Oh jose Sancho fajito the environmentalist
>>18010739No. His rogue actions in Mexico cost a lot of lives and unnecessary bloodshed. He somehow managed to take a losing situation (though the rebellion was eventually quelled) and make it even worse.>>18010892I hate that Mexican troops are stereotyped as inept and their leaders competent when it was the other way around. The few times when Mexicans surrendered or ran away was when Americans invaded some frontier town with 300 people and a few dozen soldiers guarding it. As was the case in places like California. In contrast, the indios in southern Mexico actually fought bravely.
He introduced chewing gum to the United States while he was living in exile on Staten Island.
>>18011305If anything you could compare him to Garibaldi not Napoleon
>>18010739No, spics suck dick at everything
>No, spics suck dick at everything
>>18010739No. But he is archetypal of a very specific type of American dictator. And his alleged Western Napoleonship is one of the main reasons why.
He defeated the Zacatecas and all the other rebels except the Texans so that's...something.To be the Napoleon of the West though he should have had some sort of strategic or at least tactical genius which he didn't seem to have. He had a lot of vanity and arrogance, that's about it.
>>18011502Are you the same gay beaner who makes those threads with burning US flag images?
>>18010739Literally the only thing I know about him is we captured him and took his leg and made him sign a treaty that gave us like half of mexico under duress
>Are you the same gay beaner who makes those threads with burning US flag images?
>>18011305maybe if napoleon's subordinates were so sick of his shit they sold him off to the other side before the siege of toulon started
>>18011257I believe it was the French that called him this way.>>18011296West here is meant as the Western Hemisphere.
Isn't Bolivar the South American Napoleon? Wasn't Santa Anna famously dogshit?
>>18012111This, I remembered the nickname being attributed to Bolivar, but it seems I was wrong.
>>18011703Absolutely seething lmao
>>18010739He is one of the reasons why Mexico is a shithole.
