it's amazing how so many people have a negative stereotype of napoleon purely because of british propaganda
>>226058148I would say it's amazing how many people have positive view on Napoleon.
>An imperial tyrant who caused the deaths of millions of Europeans is... le good! Because of the revolutionary French civil code, o algo
>>226058283>loved by ordinary people and hated by the nobility>european powers declare war on you because you're not one of them>defend yourself by striking first because the european powers are slow and backwards compared to you>nooooo that's not allowed you're evil! we're suing for peace!!!this is basically the napoleonic era in a nutshellthe only reason the european coalitions started winning is essentially because of attrition
>>226058148>Harper: [pointing into the distance] Look!>Sharpe: By God, I saw him! I saw him!>Harper: That's all I came for, so it is. Goodbye, Colonel Sharpe!>Sharpe: Goodbye, Mr. Harper!That scene where napoleons silhouette through the smoke is pure kino
>>226058389Ordinary people are retarded, and gay. I don't believe in teleological progressivism like nu-bonapartists, because it's gayer than aids. If you look at the peninsular war then you will see that any glory or achievement was all for naught for the amount of Europeans killed
>>226058148it's funny how foreigners see him as french hitler because he's very much still loved especially by our military eliteshttps://youtu.be/HpKO3nGyRYw?is=312R8HjWMnafONH3
>>226058523>Ordinary people are retarded, and gay.be that as it may, every single recorded example in history (to my knowldge) proves that a society that makes ordinary people happy is superior to a society that only makes the nobility happy>peninsular warthat entire war was a tangled, unwinnable mess just like russia, because the constituents of those countries didn't want to modernisethe invasion was probably not the correct move but given the circumstances, it was most likely the move that was closest to being correct>>226058547noice
No one in France respects that italian dwarf either
>>226058283Napoleon has NEVER declared a war to anyone.
>>226058880You see, you're a victim of British propaganda: he was of average height
In this house, the Duke of Wellington is a hero. End of story.
wallahi he is the greatest military mind europe ever produced
