The ten rules governing how our new world really works (Rule 5: Napoleon and Getting to Goldilocks)
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Napoleon’s France: A Country on Military Steroids In his bedazzled, gilded youth, Napoleon Bonaparte shone like the sun. Beyond Alexander the Great, it is difficult to think of any other leader in the history of the world to whom fame and fortune came so early, and so overwhelmingly. Even later on, when some of the lustre had worn off—after the retreat from Moscow and the decisive defeat of his army at the Battle of Leipzig in October 1813—his nemesis the Duke of Wellington openly admitted that Bonaparte’s mere charismatic, talismanic presence on a battlefield was worth 40,000 troops.
The ten rules governing how our new world really works (Rule 5: Napoleon and Getting to Goldilocks)
The ten rules governing how our new world…
The ten rules governing how our new world really works (Rule 5: Napoleon and Getting to Goldilocks)
Napoleon’s France: A Country on Military Steroids In his bedazzled, gilded youth, Napoleon Bonaparte shone like the sun. Beyond Alexander the Great, it is difficult to think of any other leader in the history of the world to whom fame and fortune came so early, and so overwhelmingly. Even later on, when some of the lustre had worn off—after the retreat from Moscow and the decisive defeat of his army at the Battle of Leipzig in October 1813—his nemesis the Duke of Wellington openly admitted that Bonaparte’s mere charismatic, talismanic presence on a battlefield was worth 40,000 troops.