What do you think about Napoleon?
I find his military campaigns and general impact as a leader really facinating and I'm curious to hear other opinions.
What do you think about Napoleon?
I find his military campaigns and general impact as a leader really facinating and I'm curious to hear other opinions.
He was a small guy
For you
He was like 5'7 or something that was average height for the time. British propaganda kinda started that rumor
Napoleon was a fool who just tried to bludgeon his way up a slope, when it didn't work once simply tried it again and again, sounds like something the generals of WWI were accused of.
He absolutely fucked up at Waterloo by appointing useless commanders such as Ney
He didn't understand the state Ney was in. A lifetime of heroic and suicidal acts of bravery broke him. When you get into a PTSD fit, nothing is rational. The poor guy simply wasn't the same Ney Napoleon had chosen as his right hand man.
It is sad user. Napoleon himseld was no longer the passionate conqueror he was before at the battle of Waterloo. He actually went back to camp to have a nap mid-battle and when he returned Ney was deploying a cavalry charge against a fully formed pike square. Just shit decision after shit decision made that battle deppressing
>Ney
>useless
Had an ancestor serve in his cavalry
Vive l'emperor!