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Video Napoleon's greatest foe.
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Having trouble getting the vid to load, but wasn't it General Winter in Russia? He also had problems in Spain, I think.
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He had plenty of foes starting with his delusion of grandeurs. So himself, he was his own main foe.
General Winter as said above was one of the key issue when attempting to go too far into Russia.
That was well before Der Führer attempted to reach that same Moscow and forget about panzers which « might » have made the Barbarossa thing more successful than walking on Moscow nearly three centuries ago.
Back to Napoleon, some good things with him have been to have penned some of the French institutions still alive today.
Got to say, for a short Corsican guy that was bullied at school he did achieve some things. Other things are more dubious or despicable like implementing slavery again and turning continental Europe into a giant cemetery.
General Winter as said above was one of the key issue when attempting to go too far into Russia.
That was well before Der Führer attempted to reach that same Moscow and forget about panzers which « might » have made the Barbarossa thing more successful than walking on Moscow nearly three centuries ago.
Back to Napoleon, some good things with him have been to have penned some of the French institutions still alive today.
Got to say, for a short Corsican guy that was bullied at school he did achieve some things. Other things are more dubious or despicable like implementing slavery again and turning continental Europe into a giant cemetery.
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Hubris I guess was his greatest foe, just like any conqueror. It's awfully easy to fail when you think every issue can be solved through military might.
The less glorious consequence of a heroic death: to be ploughed in as manure somewhere near the battlefield.
After the Battle of Waterloo, 53,000 bodies were left unburied, bought up by bone merchants after a looting spree by locals and not-so-locals to be processed into bone meal until the invention of superphosphate to keep up demand. The narratives are supported by the fact that no mass grave was found at the site by archaeologists.
Anyone who has been to the site can imagine what it must have looked like in real life...
The chrome translates excellently.
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After the Battle of Waterloo, 53,000 bodies were left unburied, bought up by bone merchants after a looting spree by locals and not-so-locals to be processed into bone meal until the invention of superphosphate to keep up demand. The narratives are supported by the fact that no mass grave was found at the site by archaeologists.
Anyone who has been to the site can imagine what it must have looked like in real life...
The chrome translates excellently.
Waterloo: Wurden tausende Tote zu Dünger verarbeitet? – DW – 06.07.2022
Über 53.000 Soldaten starben in der Schlacht bei Waterloo, aber seltsamerweise wurden bis heute kaum Überreste gefunden. Laut einem britischen Archäologen könnten die Knochen zu Dünger verarbeitet worden sein.
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I've been to Waterloo, and other than the big mound, there just isn't much there.
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Bodies were placed in burial pits after the battle some two decades after the battle the bones were dug up and sent to the UK where they were ground down and sold for fertilizer.The less glorious consequence of a heroic death: to be ploughed in as manure somewhere near the battlefield.
After the Battle of Waterloo, 53,000 bodies were left unburied, bought up by bone merchants after a looting spree by locals and not-so-locals to be processed into bone meal until the invention of superphosphate to keep up demand. The narratives are supported by the fact that no mass grave was found at the site by archaeologists.
Anyone who has been to the site can imagine what it must have looked like in real life...
The chrome translates excellently.
Waterloo: Wurden tausende Tote zu Dünger verarbeitet? – DW – 06.07.2022
Über 53.000 Soldaten starben in der Schlacht bei Waterloo, aber seltsamerweise wurden bis heute kaum Überreste gefunden. Laut einem britischen Archäologen könnten die Knochen zu Dünger verarbeitet worden sein.
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