Youngest general in french history

Some French philosophers and writers wanted to prophesy him
Whenever there was a rumor of his "return" from Saint-Helene, it provoked riots throughout France

You forgot the part where the coalition did not declare war on France. They declared war on HIM

>literally all of europe declares war on one man
>he still almost wins

The absolute fucking mad man.

>tfw after your death, people are prophesying you as a great saviour and are ready to start a revolution even tho you're already dead
How can one Chad-man be such a God???

>French empire will never encompass all territories of Roman Empire and Macedonian Empire at the same time, even tho there was literally a chance
It hurts so much...

>natural borders

you forgot his best and most enduring feat

spreading the Napoleonic Code that would find it's way to most of the World's legal systems

German BGB was vastly superior tbf even though it was a century late

I'm from eastern europe desu and I still get a leaky boner when I read about his return from Elba. He truly was one of a kind. Very glorious, almost unbelievable how one man can achieve all that in a single lifetime.

>fucked whatever bitch he wanted
He was beta cuck

You're a beta cuck remember?? You have to stop confusing yourself with napoleon, it's getting old.

He literally got cucked by his wife

It was the style at the time

You can conquer whole Europe Alone, if you dont shit on women, you re still irrevalant, Veeky Forums logic

>not getting cucked by your wife is shitting on women
Redditlogic

It's not cuckoldry if you also cheat on her and it's just a political marriage anyways.

>youngest general in french history
source?
>fucked whatever bitch he wanted
Literally cucked by his toothless divorcee wife
>took the crown out of the pope's hand and crowned himself, the absolute madman
Get's excommunicated and nearly panic converts to Islam...
>regularly larped as charlemagne and julius caesar
Wow, cool!
>took a shit on the """"holy roman empire"""" and destroyed it
Further facilitates the rise of Prussia and the irrevocable demise of his once great nation.
>btfo all of europe for a decade
Surrenders twice, eternally cucked by Britain and Russia

>europe is so scared of him they exile him to the remotest place on earth to contain the mad lad
Not at all true, he ran to the amnesty of the British who wouldn't have executed a noble knowing full well he would have been executed by other European powers.

Just imagine what could have been if he never lost...

>implying protectionism ever works

They got along in the end though.

It can work
for developing countries

>Literally cucked by his toothless divorcee wife
He fucked a lot more people then his wife did.

it only doesn't work for multicultural multiethnic liberal corporatist hell holes

Yeah, all of France.

literal cuck beta provider

"uppity"?

Do you know how racist that word is?

Napoleon was badass af but I can't get over how similar he looked to pre-tranny Chris-chan.

Still lost.

Can someone explain to me how the fuck did he get exiled TWICE instead of being like hanged, or shot, or whateverfuck you do to a person that just mopped the fucking floor with every other empire that existed at the time, caused insane manpower and materiel loss to everyone involved and generally didn't give a fuck?
Why such clemency?

Damn

Napoleon spread revolutionary ideals across all of Europe and the Ancien Regimes feared that by killing him he would be made a martyr for the Revolution.

Nietzsche said Napoleon was a figure that sprang up straight from antiquity that for some reason happened to be born in the boring 18th century.

He really does stand on the side of the likes of Alexander, Hannibal,Caesar, and Charlemagne.

"We owe it to Napoleon (and not at all to the French Revolution, which had in view the "fraternity" of the nations, and the florid interchange of good graces among people generally) that several warlike centuries, which have not had their like in past history, may now follow one another in short, that we have entered upon the classical age of war, war at the same time scientific and popular, on the grandest scale (as regards means, talents and discipline), to which all coming millenniums will look back with envy and awe as a work of perfection: for the national movement out of which this martial glory springs, is only the counter- against Napoleon, and would not have existed without him. To him, consequently, one will one day be able to attribute the fact that man in Europe has again got the upper hand of the merchant and the Philistine; perhaps even of "woman" also, who has become pampered owing to Christianity and the extravagant spirit of the eighteenth century, and still more owing to "modern ideas". Napoleon, who saw in modern ideas, and accordingly in civilisation, something like a personal enemy, has by this hostility proved himself one of the greatest continuators of the Renaissance: he has brought to the surface a whole block of the ancient character, the decisive block perhaps, the block of granite. And who knows but that this block of ancient character will in the end get the upper hand of the national movement, and will have to make itself in a positive sense the heir and continuator of Napoleon: who, as one knows, wanted one Europe, which was to be mistress of the world."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science

Because he's so badass that his surname simply became synonymous with greatness.

Daily reminder that Napoleon was follower of Sol Invictus. Therefore, he was the last Roman Emperor.

>last Roman Emperor.
Unironically that's Adolf Hitler.

discord.gg/V6FrKq

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>Racial supremacist instead of integrationalist
>Hierarchical instead of egalitarian
>Veterans thrown into a meat grinder instead of forming a backbone of the nation
>Conquered territory that couldn't be annexed, annexed territory that was released less than a decade later

>B-b-b-but he had a lot of clay and aesthetics and neo-paganism!
No.

I hope you're not implying the Romans were egalitarian

>his surname simply became synonymous with greatness.
his surname literally became a nickname for overcompensating chihuahua tempered manlets

You must be confusing the Republic with the Empire. Imperial Rome became more egalitarian as time went on; it was an excellent way for Emperor's to legitimize themselves in the eyes of the plebs. Nazi Germany immediately re-stratified society according to their reactionary romanticism.

Except that Napoleon being short is a myth due to differences in the French and English measurement systems and he was of average height for the time period.

It was literally an empire that relied on slavery and when slaves became less accessible it started developing serfdom. It's a complete sham to refer the Romans as egalitarian, it was only to a limited and relative degree in things like the extension of Roman citizenship, but being granted citizenship does not in any absolve you of being part of the Roman class system controlled by a very small and obscenely wealthy elite.

And no matter how many time you step in to point it out people still won't give a shit
and that was my point

Eh, brainlet normies will be brainlet normies.

>his surname literally became a nickname for overcompensating chihuahua tempered manlets
Only in anglo countries
Always poor loosers

>Applying modern morality to ancient societies
Shiggy diggy. Concepts like egalitarianism, progressiveness, reactionary thought, and hierarchicalism are relative to the society in question. The fact is the Empire made strides to close the gap between the common man and the elite, therefore the Empire was egalitarian in practice.

>>Racial supremacist instead of integrationalist
the dude maded allies (eg finland) and intergrated (eg occupied zone of france) as he went
>>Hierarchical instead of egalitarian
are you even aware rome had a slave class?
>>Veterans thrown into a meat grinder instead of forming a backbone of the nation
bad generals =/= fuhrer
>>Conquered territory that couldn't be annexed, annexed territory that was released less than a decade later
the whole thing was a clusterfuck.. a lighthouse stood alone and it shone bright, romes the only other example i can think of where the effects and influence still linger so strong to this day, regardless of original borders (see germanys to the rome city state implying HRE)
>>B-b-b-but he had a lot of clay and aesthetics and neo-paganism!
dont use the word neo it makes you look like a brainlet, what the fuck is protestantism anyway? ultimately? based on greek paganism

Even on science, napoleon had understood everything.
He replied to one of his colleagues (this person told him that there was no greater discovery than the Galileo's one) that if he had been a scientist, he would have explored the infinitely small world because it was there according to him that would reveal the nature and the full power of the man.

Russians were literally blown out in almost every major engagement by the French during the Napoleonic wars. Moscow wasn't supposed to be taken and the French still raped the Russians even when outnumbered during their retreat doing rear-guard actions.

>will never
Indeed

>t. ESL brainlet

stay sperg

He was a good general but not a great statesman
He started pointless wars and isolated his country diplomatically and economically.
Also his escape and return was orchestrated by Tallyrand, Austria and England.
They knew he / imperialism in France would come back so they brought him back ahead and schedule and stomped him down fast.
This is factually false. He took heavy losses on the Russian campaign even before his retreat

>losers

What did he mean by this?

>what the fuck is protestantism anyway? ultimately? based on greek paganism

>Napoleon can't conquer your country if there's no country to conquer

He was still the former Emperor of the French, and after 1792 the monarchies of Europe were really anxious about royalty being executed for any reason.

>the dude maded allies (eg finland) and intergrated (eg occupied zone of france) as he went
Finland was always an "enemy of my enemy is my friend" situation, as Mannerheim pointed out whenever possible. And it doesn't counteract Hitler trying to autistically erase almost every ethnic group East of Germany up to the Urals, to the direct detriment of the war effort.

>cucked by Josephine
Admittedly, Josephine is his first love - but she was a noblewoman without a husband in Paris. She got a lot of dick already. Only reason she was relevant was because Napoleon was still a young lad, highly impressionable. Still got a banging Austrian princess who decided to jump the Napoleon train after crying about it before meeting him.

Daily reminder that Josephine was an outcast hick that grew up on a plantation, and had blackened nubs for teeth from chewing on raw sugar cane all day in her youth.

>conquered egypt in a couple of months
His Egyptian campaign was a fucking disaster though. Through no fault of his own

>fucked whatever bitch he wanted
He loved his wife Josephine, but she wasn't producing an heir.

The world would be a better place if Talleyrand hadn't betrayed Napoleon and convinced Tzar Alexander not to ally with him. If Russia had taken the offer, them and France would have teamed up to basically dominate all of Europe

Napoleon had a dozen+ mistresses.

no because he was a beta cuckold for an openly adulterous empress

True, but he still loved Josephine. Their relationship was... tempestuous.

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Why isn't this a line graph?

>Showing the plebs that it's okay to execute one of your own order

That's like the entire reason the crowned heads of Europe were scared shitless into declaring coalition wars on Nappy in the first place.

>never lost a battle
>charged into the fighting himself
>defeated the long time enemy of greece and the most powerful nation in the world
>actually a decent guy to his conquered subjects
>cities named after him still to this day
>wins so much that his army literally gets tired of winning
>all by the age of 32
>called "the great"
pls

Napoleon's Egyptian campaign was excellent; he defeated vastly larger forces and occupied the two major cities of the country - Alexandria and Cairo - within months of each other. It was his disastrous and poorly thought-out Palestine campaign that fucked him up, as well as Nelson being a badass and sinking his fleet.

Alexander had generals more skilled than him. He also had a father that put greece under his foot.

Parminion was the brains of Alexander's campaigns and was rewarded by being murdered with his son. That's why Alexander isn't "great." He was just ambitious. He wasn't an innovator or a statesman. Also he basically was Persian when he died.

Also, part of the reason some people considered him "short" is that the minimum height requirement of his personal bodyguard was something like 6'1" which was pretty fucking tall back then and Napoleon being slightly above average height for back then (5'7" or something) probably looked shorter to people viewing him from a distance at processions as he was surrounded by a bunch of incredibly tall people.

>Alexander had generals more skilled than him.

Shut up Bosworth, you're drunk.

Also, while Parmenion may very well have been a good general and may very possibly have been shat on a bit in history; Alexander's greatest victory was in India against Porus, and Parmenion was well fucking dead by then.

Also, the greatest generals to come out of Alexander's conquests during the struggles of Alexander's successors weren't even generals which Alexander used for military operations barring Ptolemy. Seleukos was just one of Perdikkas' lieutenants, Eumenes was literally Alexander's clerk, and Antigonus was administrating Anatolia and not involved in much fighting if any.

Kraterus got defeated handily by Eumenes, and Perdikkas got defeated handily by Ptolemy before being sold out by Seleukos,

Therefore the argument that "Alexander's generals" did all the work doesn't hold wait. As the most senior commanders of Alexander largely proved second rate at best after Alexander's death, and none of his successors (who fought with him, Pyrrhus didn't fight with Alexander) proved to have anywhere near the tactical genius of Alexander.

So no, your Bosworthian argument is full of fucking holes and full of fucking shit. Sure, saying that Parmenion's work was downplayed after his death is very possibly valid, it's an interesting hypothesis, but there's no proof Alexander was in anyway hindered by the removal of Parmenion, also Parmenion basically held Alexander's succession hostage as he was related via marriage to Attalus who Alexander needed to liquidate: Parmenion knew this and used it to his advantage gaining himself the position as second in command, and basically making all his relatives generals in Alexander, which Alexander then had to spend years upon years removing. As he removed these generals his army still seemed to do well though.

Fucking Bosworth triggers me so goddamn much!

also his man called him le petit corporal
petit says something more on his humbleness rather than his size

>as well as Nelson being a badass and sinking his fleet.

This was the real issue. If the fleet captain had listened to Napoopans explicit instructions he would have avoided being destroyed too.

t. John Green

Put it to rest, dude. Alexander was an amazing general and mediocre statesman. And just to make mention of Alexander father putting Greece under foot, Alexander had to defeat a coalition of the majority of Hellas in order to keep them. He did. In one battle. Flawlessly.

*blocks your path*
Pssht nothin' personal kid

>it's just a political marriage anyways.
He did loved her. In later periods she loved him too.

Oops, wrong pic

This kraut thought he was pregnant with an elephant he was crazy. The virgin Blücher vs the chad Wellington (at least people have heard of him)

The hegemony of Napoleon was so important that any general who was victorious against him was promoted to the rank of national hero and icon...

>t. perfidious Anglo or consumer of Anglo media
Wellington literally only fought 1 battle against Napoleon which was after the real fall of his empire and with the vital help of the Prussians. Wellington somehow being Napoleon's nemesis is a big dumb Anglo meme.

The real war was won in central and eastern Europe.

It must have been awkward, literally only being known as something other than a "who" because you were part of a million-man coalition that defeated a vastly superior leader.

Wellington :
"His defeat of Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815 put him in the first rank of Britain's military heroes."
New zealand capital = wellington :
"Wellington takes its name from Arthur Wellesley (1769–1852), the first Duke of Wellington and victor of the Battle of Waterloo (1815)"

Are you this retarded? The majority of the allied forces were under wellington's command.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Wellesley,_1st_Duke_of_Wellington
Go to military service

Also the Anglo funded all the battles and armies of the war. It's like saying the US wasn't instrumental in winning WW1 and WW2

Napoleon was merely a thorn in the side of Britain on it's rise to global hegemony

>The majority of the allied forces were under wellington's command.
Are you confusing the british army with the majority of the allied forces?

Battle of waterloo:
Troops under Wellington: 68,000
Troops undet Blücher: 50,000

You didn't say "The majority of the allied forces at Waterloo were under Wellington's command", you said the vaguer "the majority of allied forces were under Wellington's command".

Two very different scenarios.