What went wrong?

What went wrong?

they battled the british

>invade russia
>sack moscow
>haha we won!
>nobody signs the surrender
>winter sets in
>h-heh they'll be here to bend the knee soon, lads!
>o-okay lets just go back to france and start over next summer
Why didn't more countries do this?
>let enemy win
>refuse to sign surrender

> The British ended Napoleon
WEW LAD

>american education

Not every country is Russia

Not completely dividing Prussia.

>British education

>wat is Trafalgar
>wat is Waterloo

The japs tried it a few years later and got NUKE'd.

>Waterloo United Kingdom: 25,000 British
> Prussia 50 000 men
We dit it England, we saved Europe !

>anglo allied casualties - 17000
>prussian casualties - 7000

How long did the prussian army last against napoleon again? Oh yes, 19 days.

Just means you're shit at war if you have casualties this high given your odds.


Now, this is all banter, I know Blücher didn't show up at the start of the battle, but neither did Grouchy !

good strategy except for the little side effect of death

>that metastasized fr*ncer

Why didn't Napoleon just hunker down in Moscow for the winter?

Cause Moscow was burnt to the ground

Russians with their ebin scorched earth tactics win again!

Britain countered them in the Peninsular wars while supporting Russia despite the pressure Napoleon placed on it. When Napoleon's final army was countered at Waterloo, this demonstrated that France was no longer able to project force in Europe and the empire disintegrated.

>Napoleon said of the conflict, "It was [the Spanish war] that overthrew me. All my disasters can be traced back to this fatal knot".[204]

>we died a lot so we did more
lol

>1810
>Russia not pink

Shit map
Also "allied" should be "submitted into alliance"

QFT

Napoleon should've let Spain alone. They were more useful as a satellite than trying to put his brother on the throne. All those troops and money wasted in the Peninsular War costed him in the long run. The French defeat at Bailen sent shockwaves through Europe and proved that the French were not invincible. Alexander and the Russian nobility took note of the Spanish resistance with interest in-between Tilsit and the 1812 invasion.

Napoleon should've quit while he was ahead. After Austerlitz, he should have heeded Talleyrand and gave moderate peace terms with Austria. And make damn sure the Prussians and Russians are out of British orbit.

Meanwhile, the Continental System was a failure. Smuggling was too organized and there was too much corruption for a ban of British goods to be successful. Even Napoleon violated his decrees by issuing licenses for trade so that he could stock up on gold.

>Why didn't more countries do this?

Not every country can have its army retreat for hundreds of kms
Poland refused to surrender during WW2, but it didnt change anything because the Germans were occupying the whole country anyway

Meant thousands of kms btw