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The Napoleonic wars were fucking nuts

you think they're going to end but NO! more huge fucking bat...
seedy school roommate
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Omg so random *invades Egypt*
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napoleon was the elliot rodger of his time
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Napoleon was a mad dog. He was literally imprisoned on an is...
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And that island is way down in the absolute ass end of the w...
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no, he escaped from Elba which is next to Italy. After that...
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oh SHIT i am done here.
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it was completely unsustainable
grizzly site sound barrier
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Flame. Invading Russia is what fucked him
insanely creepy big-titted faggot firefighter
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austrians and prussians would have got him anyway
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the prussians got him -- by dying en masse in russia while f...
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Can you imagine being at a shitshow like Leipzig? Literally ...
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The numbers involved in these battles was mindboggling when ...
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makes me sad. there is not a leader alive -- hasnt been -- w...
glittery insane piazza
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what about the Roosevelts or even Nixon
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maybe fdr. lol at teddy and especially nixon. imagine &qu...
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Yeah but I think you're drawing a distinction without much o...
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im a newb to roman history, so I dont know much. But after S...
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Might depend on what you mean by "modern," but pre...
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the entire U.S. ethos is predicated on George Washington bei...
at-the-ready passionate chapel goal in life
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Hence the Houdon statute.
Blue swashbuckling stag film useless brakes
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youre right and thats why lincoln stands a mile above any ot...
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is there a single great leader who figured out how to do suc...
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Julius Caesar implemented the goat succession
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Last leader I can think of with the sheer intellectual energ...
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Hitler is probably a closer comp
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Describe the 1800s and 1900s if Napoleon had declined to inv...
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Date: October 19th, 2015 2:46 AM
Author: seedy school roommate

you think they're going to end but NO! more huge fucking battles.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3020946&forum_id=2#28997736)



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Date: October 19th, 2015 3:12 AM
Author: Floppy codepig juggernaut

cr description

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3020946&forum_id=2#28997770)



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Date: October 19th, 2015 3:14 AM
Author: mildly autistic church

Omg so random *invades Egypt*

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3020946&forum_id=2#28997773)



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Date: October 19th, 2015 3:35 AM
Author: fiercely-loyal shimmering idea he suggested

napoleon was the elliot rodger of his time

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3020946&forum_id=2#28997788)



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Date: October 19th, 2015 9:09 AM
Author: Dead razzle spot



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3020946&forum_id=2#28998078)



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Date: October 19th, 2015 9:11 AM
Author: Bright flirting kitchen ladyboy

Napoleon was a mad dog. He was literally imprisoned on an island and when he escaped he went back to conquer again like NAH DING

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3020946&forum_id=2#28998085)



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Date: October 19th, 2015 9:14 AM
Author: grizzly site sound barrier

http://cdn.loc.gov/service/pnp/pga/04000/04089v.jpg

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3020946&forum_id=2#28998087)



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Date: October 19th, 2015 9:19 AM
Author: Bright flirting kitchen ladyboy

180000

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3020946&forum_id=2#28998102)



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Date: October 19th, 2015 9:22 AM
Author: grizzly site sound barrier

the drawing is kind of flawed though. look at the guy in the foreground on the left. his neck is turned about 150 degrees from the way his body is facing, lol.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3020946&forum_id=2#28998108)



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Date: October 19th, 2015 9:22 AM
Author: Hyperventilating knife



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3020946&forum_id=2#28998110)



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Date: December 16th, 2018 4:27 PM
Author: Mustard church building kitty



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3020946&forum_id=2#37417400)



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Date: October 19th, 2015 9:17 AM
Author: Bistre nighttime jap set

And that island is way down in the absolute ass end of the world.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3020946&forum_id=2#28998096)



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Date: October 19th, 2015 9:18 AM
Author: grizzly site sound barrier

no, he escaped from Elba which is next to Italy. After that they sent him to St Helena in the South Atlantic where he died a few years later

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3020946&forum_id=2#28998099)



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Date: October 19th, 2015 9:19 AM
Author: Bistre nighttime jap set

oh SHIT i am done here.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3020946&forum_id=2#28998101)



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Date: December 16th, 2018 5:00 PM
Author: Blue swashbuckling stag film useless brakes

The history of Atlantic volcanic islands is pretty much just the history of European rulers living in exile. Like Portuguese royalty hanging out in the Azores after Philip II conquered the whole Iberian peninsula, driving the Spanish into the sea with cows.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3020946&forum_id=2#37417533)



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Date: October 19th, 2015 9:24 AM
Author: insanely creepy big-titted faggot firefighter

HILLARIOUS that morons on this site talk shit about Germany styling on France when France literally resurrected the Roman fucking EMPIRE and styled on continental Europe harder than fucking Hitler

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3020946&forum_id=2#28998112)



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Date: October 19th, 2015 9:25 AM
Author: grizzly site sound barrier

it was completely unsustainable

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3020946&forum_id=2#28998117)



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Date: October 19th, 2015 9:27 AM
Author: insanely creepy big-titted faggot firefighter

Flame. Invading Russia is what fucked him

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3020946&forum_id=2#28998123)



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Date: October 19th, 2015 9:47 AM
Author: Dead razzle spot

austrians and prussians would have got him anyway

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3020946&forum_id=2#28998216)



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Date: November 12th, 2019 10:00 AM
Author: hilarious hairraiser pit gaming laptop

the prussians got him -- by dying en masse in russia while forming half his army

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3020946&forum_id=2#39106084)



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Date: December 16th, 2018 4:27 PM
Author: Mustard church building kitty



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3020946&forum_id=2#37417401)



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Date: October 19th, 2015 9:24 AM
Author: Comical business firm

Can you imagine being at a shitshow like Leipzig? Literally like 500,000 bros around one town just duking it out for three days.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3020946&forum_id=2#28998114)



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Date: December 16th, 2018 5:07 PM
Author: very tactful black woman national

(Charles diagramming to his date on a napkin)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3020946&forum_id=2#37417562)



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Date: December 16th, 2018 6:09 PM
Author: Razzle-dazzle Splenetic Legend



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3020946&forum_id=2#37417852)



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Date: December 16th, 2018 10:44 PM
Author: beady-eyed out-of-control gas station azn

The numbers involved in these battles was mindboggling when compared to prior major conflicts.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3020946&forum_id=2#37419299)



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Date: December 16th, 2018 4:57 PM
Author: glittery insane piazza

makes me sad. there is not a leader alive -- hasnt been -- who holds a candle to someone like napoleon. the sheer will.

i felt the same reading about caesar and pompey recently. the republic and US "democracy" are really not that different, and yet we cannot produce one man who sees how things are and simply says, "Nah, we've got to fix some shit, Im just going to run things. fuck your 'republic', follow me."



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3020946&forum_id=2#37417518)



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Date: December 16th, 2018 4:59 PM
Author: at-the-ready passionate chapel goal in life

what about the Roosevelts

or even Nixon

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3020946&forum_id=2#37417528)



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Date: December 16th, 2018 5:01 PM
Author: glittery insane piazza

maybe fdr. lol at teddy and especially nixon.

imagine "impeaching" caesar because his people broke some criminal laws (non-violently) and him agreeing to go peacefully

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3020946&forum_id=2#37417535)



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Date: December 16th, 2018 5:06 PM
Author: Blue swashbuckling stag film useless brakes

Yeah but I think you're drawing a distinction without much of a difference. The line between democracy and dictatorship is pretty blurry - Hitler won power mostly democratically, and so did Putin. Likewise, Napoleon only got where he got because of massive popular support.

So I don't think our fucked-ness is due to the fact that we vote with our parties instead of with our partisans. I think it's the Huxleyan idiocracy we've built - people would rather be amped up and entertained at a political rally than to judge soberly the different proposals put forth by candidates. Groupthink is as big a problem here as it was for the mindless goose-steppers.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3020946&forum_id=2#37417555)



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Date: December 16th, 2018 5:16 PM
Author: glittery insane piazza

im a newb to roman history, so I dont know much. But after Sulla, the threat that Caesar would simply charge his legions into Rome was a real thing, correct? Can you imagine any modern leader hinting, "if you dont get on board I will simply invade our capital, deal with that shit"?

While his power may have been "legitimate", it seems it was only by the force of his demand. The senate would have liked nothing better than that he return from gaul and be a private citizen again, like Nixon after he left the white house, or george washington.

Caesar, basically, did what was needed and let the system adjust itself around him.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3020946&forum_id=2#37417603)



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Date: December 16th, 2018 5:52 PM
Author: Blue swashbuckling stag film useless brakes

Might depend on what you mean by "modern," but pretty much sounds like Lincoln. Nothing in the Constitution even contemplated civil war. Was the Emancipation Proclamation legal? Only if you count slaves as property of a warring nation, so therefore only if you give legal effect to the secession. Lincoln decided it needed to be done and did it, come hell or high water.

To a lesser extent, Obama too. Is it legal to drone-strike an American citizen? Maybe, maybe not.

But yeah, I'll grant the point that Mattis marching the Marine Corps into DC to throw the whole thing over when they finally reach peak corruption seems implausible.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3020946&forum_id=2#37417770)



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Date: December 16th, 2018 5:54 PM
Author: at-the-ready passionate chapel goal in life

the entire U.S. ethos is predicated on George Washington being a Cincinnatus

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3020946&forum_id=2#37417777)



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Date: December 16th, 2018 6:10 PM
Author: Blue swashbuckling stag film useless brakes

Hence the Houdon statute.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3020946&forum_id=2#37417858)



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Date: December 16th, 2018 5:56 PM
Author: glittery insane piazza

youre right and thats why lincoln stands a mile above any other president, except perhaps washington. he had the genius to invent a new system and the balls to just do it. neither lincoln nor washington (and perhaps caesar nor napoleon I dont know history) were able to contemplate what would come after them, however, and both left a genius/personality void that would not be filled

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3020946&forum_id=2#37417785)



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Date: December 16th, 2018 6:11 PM
Author: at-the-ready passionate chapel goal in life

is there a single great leader who figured out how to do succession?

Alexander the Great's conquest immediately fell into rival satrapies

the Mongols broke up into a few generations (though the individual Khanates lasted centuries)

lol @ the thought of the Third Reich surviving the in-fighting and mishmash system that Hitler cobbled up by whim even if he had a clear heir

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3020946&forum_id=2#37417862)



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Date: November 12th, 2019 10:00 AM
Author: Floppy codepig juggernaut

Julius Caesar implemented the goat succession

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3020946&forum_id=2#39106083)



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Date: December 16th, 2018 5:11 PM
Author: irradiated den

Last leader I can think of with the sheer intellectual energy and aggressiveness of Napolean is probably Teddy Roosevelt. And even he doesn’t really come close.

Can you bring imagine a modern leader with his reading habits? With his ambition and drive? He was a polymath that was insanely ambitious and had the leadership and managerial skills to make his ambitions a reality.

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/napoleon-bonaparte-what-read-books-emperor-library-campaigns-a8415776.html

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/napoleon-bonaparte-what-read-books-emperor-library-campaigns-a8415776.html

But he was also keen not to be separated from reading matter while on campaigns, so wisely commissioned various travel libraries which were put together by his personal librarian Antoine-Alexandre Barbie.

These contained hundreds of volumes and covered military tactics, history, geography and religion as well as novels, poetry and plays.

In addition to these, he also ordered a smaller, more manageable travel library in a wooden box resembling a large book measuring around 15 by 10 inches, stocked with French classics in appropriately bespoke smaller format (see list above).

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3020946&forum_id=2#37417581)



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Date: December 16th, 2018 5:12 PM
Author: stirring weed whacker sanctuary

Hitler is probably a closer comp

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3020946&forum_id=2#37417589)



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Date: December 16th, 2018 5:14 PM
Author: at-the-ready passionate chapel goal in life

Hitler loved Karl May cowboy dime novels. his tastes were prole

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3020946&forum_id=2#37417595)



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Date: December 16th, 2018 5:20 PM
Author: irradiated den

CR

Teddy Roosevelt may actually beat Napoleon in the autodidact category.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2018/01/09/trump-isnt-big-on-reading-teddy-roosevelt-consumed-whole-books-before-breakfast/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.3b5a747f678d

Edmund Morris described Teddy’s reading habits in his three-volume biography:

He succumbs to it so totally — on the heaving deck of the Presidential yacht in the middle of a cyclone, between whistle-stops on a campaign trip, even while waiting for his carriage at the front door — that he cannot hear his own name being spoken. Nothing short of a thump on the back will regain his attention. Asked to summarized the book he has been leafing through with such apparent haste, he will do so in minute detail, often quoting the actual text.

At minimum, Teddy read a book a day — history, poetry, philosophy, novels.

He devoured newspapers and magazines, too, Morris wrote, though in a somewhat predatory way: “Each page, as he comes to the end of it, is torn out and thrown onto the floor.”

This went all night, every night, until Teddy’s one good eye had enough. Then he would leap from his rocking chair, get into his cozy pajamas, and place next to his pillow “a large, precautionary revolver.”

Teddy would then “energetically fall asleep,” Morris wrote, “there being nothing further to do.”

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3020946&forum_id=2#37417628)



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Date: December 16th, 2018 5:22 PM
Author: glittery insane piazza

"I fall asleep when every thread is purple," I explain to my GF

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3020946&forum_id=2#37417638)



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Date: December 16th, 2018 5:22 PM
Author: irradiated den



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Date: December 16th, 2018 6:27 PM
Author: Wonderful tanning salon bbw



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Date: December 16th, 2018 6:32 PM
Author: provocative senate quadroon



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Date: December 16th, 2018 7:22 PM
Author: painfully honest wild mad-dog skullcap



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3020946&forum_id=2#37418230)



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Date: December 16th, 2018 8:14 PM
Author: irate diverse box office



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3020946&forum_id=2#37418453)



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Date: December 16th, 2018 8:48 PM
Author: Mustard church building kitty



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3020946&forum_id=2#37418632)



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Date: December 16th, 2018 10:45 PM
Author: beady-eyed out-of-control gas station azn



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3020946&forum_id=2#37419310)



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Date: December 16th, 2018 10:52 PM
Author: Gaped Famous Landscape Painting Principal's Office

After placing a "large, precautionary black dildo" next to the pillow.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3020946&forum_id=2#37419348)



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Date: December 16th, 2018 5:04 PM
Author: stirring weed whacker sanctuary

Describe the 1800s and 1900s if Napoleon had declined to invade Russia.

Would the Confederation of the Rhine have joined Austria or Prussia (or both I guess) to form Germany? Would Spain have been successful in the Peninsular war or would they have been crushed? How long would it take for the UK to capitulate?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3020946&forum_id=2#37417546)



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Date: December 16th, 2018 5:21 PM
Author: Yapping dilemma

Best book I should read on this subject?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3020946&forum_id=2#37417632)



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Date: November 12th, 2019 9:54 AM
Author: Yapping dilemma

The Age of Napoleon by Will Durant was a great introduction for you, I tell myself.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3020946&forum_id=2#39106052)



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Date: December 16th, 2018 8:47 PM
Author: appetizing milk wagecucks

what was the cause of the napoleonic wars, i.e. who started it

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3020946&forum_id=2#37418626)



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Date: December 16th, 2018 8:48 PM
Author: Mustard church building kitty

shitlibs of course

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3020946&forum_id=2#37418636)



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Date: December 16th, 2018 8:51 PM
Author: marvelous greedy hunting ground native

Grrr hate those guys lol

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3020946&forum_id=2#37418647)



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Date: December 16th, 2018 8:52 PM
Author: Mustard church building kitty



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Date: December 16th, 2018 10:45 PM
Author: beady-eyed out-of-control gas station azn



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Date: December 16th, 2018 10:18 PM
Author: Gaped Famous Landscape Painting Principal's Office

Marshal Ney, "the Bravest of the Brave,” who had taken service under the

Bourbons, boasted that he would bring his former master

back to Paris in an iron cage. He found he could not resist

the Emperor’s call, and he joined Napoleon. Other Marshals who

bad turned their coats now turned them again. Within eighteen

days of his landing, Napoleon was installed in the capital.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3020946&forum_id=2#37419156)



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Date: December 16th, 2018 10:29 PM
Author: Gaped Famous Landscape Painting Principal's Office

Napoleon had for nine months been sovereign of Elba.

The former master of the Continent now looked out upon

a shrunken island domain. He kept about him the apparatus

of Imperial dignity. He applied to the iron mines and tunny

fisheries of his little kingdom the same probing energy that

had once set great armies in motion. He still possessed an

army. It included four hundred members of his Old Guard, a

few displaced Polish soldiers, and a local militia. He also

had a navy, for which he devised a special Elban ensign. His

fleet consisted of a single brig and some cutters. To these

puny armaments and to the exiguous Elban budget he devoted his attention. He would henceforth give himself up, he had

told the people of Elba, to the task of ensuring their happiness.

For their civic dignitaries he invented an impressive uniform.

At Porto Ferrajo, his capital, he furnished a palace in the

grand manner. He played cards with his mother, and cheated

according to his recognised custom. He entertained his favourite sister and his faithful Polish mistress. Only his wife, the

Empress Marie Louise, and their son were missing. The Austrian Government took care to keep them both in Vienna.

The Empress showed no sign of wishing to break her parole.

Family Habsburg loyalty meant more to her than her husband.

A stream of curious foreign visitors came to see the fallen

Emperor, many from Britain. One of them reported, perhaps

not without prejudice, that he looked more like a crafty priest

than a great commander. The resident Allied Commissioner

on Elba, Sir Neil Campbell, knew better. As the months went

by, close observers became sure that Napoleon was biding his

time. He was keeping a watch on events in France and

Italy. Through spies he was in touch with many currents of

opinion. He perceived that the restored Bourbons could not

command the loyalty of the French. Besides, they had failed

to pay him the annual pension stipulated in the treaty of

peace. This act of pettiness persuaded Napoleon that he was

absolved from honounng the treaty’s terms. In February

1815 he saw, or thought he saw, that the Congress of Vienna

was breaking up.The Allies were at odds, and France, discontented, beckoned to him. Campbell, the shrewd Scottish

watchdog, was absent in Italy. Of all this conjunction of circumstances, Napoleon took lightning advantage. On Sunday

night, the 26th of February, he slipped out of harbour in his

brig, attended by a small train of lesser vessels. At the head

of a thousand men, he set sail for France. On March 1, he

landed near Antibes. The local band, welcommg him, played

the French equivalent of Home, Sweet Home. .



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Date: November 12th, 2019 9:53 AM
Author: Yapping dilemma

Napoleon leaving Elba out of boredom and then starting a chill parade back to Paris while everyone in a continental Europe panics is pretty hilarious.

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Date: November 12th, 2019 9:55 AM
Author: Yapping dilemma

Napoleon destroyed the Frankfurt Jewish ghettoes, allowing the Rothschilds to begin to flourish.

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Date: November 12th, 2019 10:03 AM
Author: hilarious hairraiser pit gaming laptop

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Date: November 12th, 2019 10:07 AM
Author: Yapping dilemma

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