Napoleon Bonaparte was very hardworking.
Even in his youth, he would get up at 4 am at the latest and immediately start working. He believed that an officer on duty should be able to do everything an ordinary soldier could, and he himself set an example in his battalion.
At parade, Napoleon briefly spoke to an officer.
‘Before that, I admired Napoleon as the whole army admired him. From that day on, I devoted my life to him with a fanaticism which time has not weakened.
I had one regret... that I had only one life to place at his service.’
Part 2 of 2 poll questions: how much blame do you place on Napoleon for the loss at Waterloo? Keep in mind that he didn’t have Berthier (his usual chief of staff) and his marshals didn’t have their best performance. #napoleon#waterloo
Sir Arthur Wellesley was an excellent military commander. His campaigns in India and Spain were very interesting and marked with great victories like Salamanca or Vitoria beating Napoleon's marshalls. However sometimes people say he was better than Napoleon. That's simply false!
Is the Duke of Wellington overrated?
Were his successes on the battlefield really that important to the outcome of the Napoleonic Wars?
Debate in the comments below👇
Definitely the worst Napoleonic film.
Napoleon Bonaparte was one of the most inspiring leaders of history. Yet in the film he almost seems like just an old sad fellow, what sense does that make? And not talking about the terrible battle scenes especially Austerlitz.
The worst film ever?
Throwback to an episode that got so frenzied it required a strong language warning
We hacked apart Ridley Scott’s Napoleon movie to explore the real reasons why it was such a disappointment to fans of the period
🎧https://t.co/DpeN3A3Ks5