Napoleon the great!

[Vietcong]

well
after all, he did win more battles then Julius cesar, Hannibal, and Alexander the great all combined.

ok since the poll didnt work
napoleon
1 the great
2 the evil
3 the liberator
4 other

 

[Bozo Erectus]

I think I know where this one is going: after a few posts praising Napolean, he compares him to Hitler.

 

[thetrooper]

What's the purpose of this thread?

 

[Vietcong]

nooooo
my poll didnt work!! WTH!!

i even typed in the poll and all and hit submit but it didnt work!! why!!?

 

[Elrohir]

What's the purpose of this thread?

A good question. Is this where we just talk about Napoleon? Wouldn't it, then, fit better in the World History portion of the Colosseum?

 

[Vietcong]

well thear was saposed to be a poll

i vote for the great.
im sick of ppl compearing him to hitler, hes nothing like hitler for one.

 

[Erik Mesoy]

How about "Napoleon, the guy who apparently treated Jews decently to such a degree that my history book bothers to mention it"?

Nice of him.

 

[ChrTh]

I'm just angry that he never actually said "Able was I, ere I saw Elba"

 

[puglover]

He lost every campaign he embarked on, lied about major defeats, and used people like tools. Then he gets recognized as the great hero of the French people. Yeah, some great man.

 

[Bozo Erectus]

He wasnt even French.

 

[ChrTh]

He lost every campaign he embarked on, lied about major defeats, and used people like tools. Then he gets recognized as the great hero of the French people. Yeah, some great man.

And he wasn't even French!

 

[puglover]

That's awesome.

 

[.Shane.]

He lost every campaign he embarked on

Not sure where you'd get this wrong idea.

 

[Atlas14]

He lost every campaign he embarked on, lied about major defeats, and used people like tools. Then he gets recognized as the great hero of the French people. Yeah, some great man.

Losing all the campaigns (which he technically didn't do) isn't that bad considering he had the greatest powers of Europe allied against him, and he still was the greatest general of the era. He was bound to be defeated, just like Hitler, but what he did accomplish was amazing. He brought prestige back to the French army and peoples, and gave them an awesome national pride, and he installed civil codes and military awards for loyal and brave service. He truly was a great man, not necessarily moral or completely admirable, but he was great.

 

[MobBoss]

I would say that Napoleon was a military genius.....and like the vast majority of military greats had a long string of incredible victories only to be eclipsed by a defeat so utter as to wipe away all previous successes.

How many other men in history can say they lost an army of over 600,000 men in an ill-planned winter war in Russia?

 

[Tycoon101]

How many other men in history can say they lost an army of over 600,000 men in an ill-planned winter war in Russia?

We need a compendium:
Never Fight a land war in Asia
Never Fight a winter war in Russia
Never Fight a nuclear war with America

Got any others?

But I truly think that a man who gave the French (Despite his non-French heritage) the dignity of winning a battle needs to be remembered forever. Long live Napolean Dynamite! Err... Napolean Bonaparte!

And he gets kudos for eliminating the Holy Roman Empire.

 

[Masquerouge]

He lost every campaign he embarked on, lied about major defeats, and used people like tools. Then he gets recognized as the great hero of the French people. Yeah, some great man.

Replace French by American, and a certain recent American president comes to mind

 

[ChrTh]

Replace French by American, and a certain recent American president comes to mind

Clinton? Can't be Bush, no one likes him.

 

[Birdjaguar]

Naopleon the Great. He revolutionized warfare and was a brilliant strategist. He was at his most brilliant 1795 to 1807. later successes were harder to come by for a variety of reasons. He was beaten at Waterloo by the Prussians, not the English.

 

[puglover]

Not sure where you'd get this wrong idea.

Well if you exclude Egypt, Russia, and Western Europe you may have a point there.