From what I understand, Napoleon got off the Island by going into a secret basement dug by the Others and turning a donkey wheel.
from what i understand, napoleon got off the island by going into a secret basement dug by the others and turning a donkey wheel.
Confined to islands both times? First time as basically the leader of the island? Why the hell did he get off so lightly?
Besides, you know, invading many countries just to salve his ego and plunge Spain into a brutal guerilla war.Napoleon wasn't really all that bad.
I thought France invaded them?Meh. Consider it retribution for all those countries invading France a couple years earlier.
I thought France invaded them?
There were very legitimate fears that France would explode into guerrilla warfare upon the Bourbon Restoration, especially the Second Restoration. The ultraroyalists treated the people so poorly that were practically begging to be overthrown.The simple answer is that killing him would have made peace impossible. Seems odd, as he was a foreigner who killed more French through irresponsible leadership than Hitler did through enmity ... but that's how logical patriotism is.
Not at all. The French do not traditionally regard nationality as something that can exclusively be bred into a person, but something that can be acquired- as demonstrated by the French habit of attempting to inflict it upon the non-French nationalities within their own borders. Napoleon may have been a Corsican by birth, be he was widely regarded as the model of a patriotic Frenchman, and, in his era, that was what really mattered.The simple answer is that killing him would have made peace impossible. Seems odd, as he was a foreigner who killed more French through irresponsible leadership than Hitler did through enmity ... but that's how logical patriotism is.
Aw, c'mon, it's not his fault that the half-witted Spanish peasants actually tried to defend the monarchy. They brought that one on themselves.Besides, you know, invading many countries just to salve his ego and plunge Spain into a brutal guerilla war.
After Nappy replaced their king with his inept brother.Aw, c'mon, it's not his fault that the half-witted Spanish peasants actually tried to defend the monarchy. They brought that one on themselves.
At least Joe was a constitutional monarch. Better than the priest-ridden Bourbons, by any measure!After Nappy replaced their king with his inept brother.
Well, granted, the French didn't exactly the whole episode with what you'd call elegance.Could also be that Frenchmen that were pillaging their land and raping their women, to which the cause of national defense was symbolized by their head of state.
By the way, this is mostly right. The reasons for the outbreak of the 1792 war are a bit more complex. For instance, the revolutionary French were basically tearing the concept of sovereignty (that they were deploying against the various other European governments) into tiny little pieces by intervening in several neighboring Imperial principalities, declaring claims on more of them, and ripping the Imperial law that still partially governed the eastern portion of France into small bits. Also, they kinda annexed the Church lands around Avignon and the Emperor was kinda obligated to get cheesed off about that.If you are referring to the War of the First Coalition, France declared war on Austria for perceived dynastic mettling (the former Queen of France was German, it was suspected Austria would attempt to overthrow the Republic and re-establish a monarchy). The other powers (Prussia, Britain, Russia, etc.) declared war on France after action had begun, mostly after King Louis XVI's execution. Early battles took place mostly on French soil, besides a few successes in the Austrian Netherlands.