Napoleon established hegemony over most of continental Europe and sought to spread the ideals of the French Revolution, while consolidating an imperial monarchy which restored aspects of the deposed ancien régime. Due to his success in these wars, often against numerically superior enemies, he is regarded as one of the greatest military commanders of all time by most military academies to this day...which teaches his strategies applicable still in modern warfare....
In addition, Napoleon was fighting the Russians and other armies with equal arms, unlike the German fighting a highly mechanized war with new tactics (blitzkrieg) against poorly equipped Russians and nowhere at equal arms, at least at the beginning...walking to Moscow and back was an incredible feat of strength and endurance! I can't get some kids today to walk 2 city blocks, they walked thousands of miles!!
Wtf, Napoleon left his men to die, while fleeing under an assumed name back to Paris? That's some Heinrich Himmler shit right there. Napoleon was a coward?
I suddenly have more respect for Hitler, who put a bullet through his head and died with the Reich. Ironically Hitler was more honorable.
-Napoleon did not want to invade Russia but to fight in a regular way in Poland or West Russia.
-He did not cowardly abandon his troops but constently struggled to maintain order, morale and courage among them during the terrible retreat until he learned that the situation in Paris was unstable (a general had tried to make a Coup d'Etat) so he had to return quickly to fix it.
-Despite the errors he may have done, he remains universally aclaimed by those who know anything about history of warfare as one if not the greatest modern-time military leader. Once was Wellington asked:"Who is the greatest general ?"Wellington answered :"In Past,in Present,in Future - Napoleon."
Its shocking to see the death of 500,000 men and then think of WW2 that killed 60 million. In the 1400s, world population estimates were 350 million. Imagine a war that killed almost 20% of the world's people. Humanity is disturbing.
@redarrowhead2 Humans are disguisting, first you have the church that teaches uneducated people to breed many kids (and that God will take care of them and feed them) then the population explodes, there's not enough to eat and the conditions are set to want to invade other countries and steal their resources, poor family planning is the root of all problems, look at 3rd world countries today
@redarrowhead2 Humanity is horribly disturbing. In a world with murder, rape, hate crimes, political corruption, sociopaths entering high-ranking government positions, famine, disease, war, genocide, child labor, slavery, and anything that hasn't occurred to me at the moment, humanity is one of the most disturbing things out there. If you want to be really horrified by humanity, try reading something about the Holocaust. 17 pages into "Night" by Elie Wiesel, and I'm already feeling misanthropic.
Excellent quote from Aristotle projectbrumaire...couldn't agree more..the low always are stamped on by the high in society..with heroic overtures to save there precious existences..
What is this?? One interviewee, many clips from Bonderchuk's "War & Peace", a lone historical reenactor, the occasional primitive CG strategy map and a narrator. LOL. A real mixed bag!
@TheMrJaguarpaw Poland defeated Russia in 1610 at Smolensk. Poland then occupied Moscow. True, in 1621 the Russian Boyars expelled the Poles. Did this affect the Russians? You bet. The 1612 Russian victory is a Russian holiday to this day!
@projectbrumaire You have very strange morals. If the French didn't want to be killed in a horrible fashion, they should've stayed home. When you come to another man's home to subjugate rob and kill him, you abandon your rights as a human being.
@Pseudologic They were conscripts, you peasant. They were forced to be there, and they did everything they could to leave and most succeeded, look at the massive desertion levels! They just wanted to leave, and would all have left whether or not they were scythed down by backward peasant as they dragged themselves along, starved and completely hopeless. That is barbarity, plain and simple.
@projectbrumaire Destroying invaders is not barbarity. It's an excellent way to prevent future invasions. Makes conquerors think twice. You're a typical little idiot, who blames everyone, but the criminal for his own misfortune.
@projectbrumaire You cannot put modern morality on what happened 200 years ago. The peasents of Russia lived in the worst poverty of the time, treated like scum by their own upper class nobility. Then to top it off, the French come in wanting to replace one tyranny with another, it is inevitable that their need for revenge would come to the fore. I quote Aristotle - "At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst."
All people are capable of the worst brutality, history bears this out. Even in our modern world society there are people who commit the most heinous of crimes against their fellow man.
This is higly cynical thing to say. French army killed millions of Russians...and than peasants are cruel to those poor nazis in french uniforms. I keep wondering, why we didnt destroyed Paris to the ground, when we entered it in 1814.
@VTBbank comparing revolutionnary france with nazi germany and hitler with napoleon only makes you an ignorant!
1- napoleon wasn't racist or genocidal
2- he didn't start any war without provocation except the spanish war while hitler kept invading neutral countries without declaration of war.
3- napoleon is one of histories greatest generals, easily top 5 EVER, while hitler disposed of superior forces to his war unprepared enemies, he wasn't brilliant when it was 50-50.
So what happened to that French guy who was called up from Spain, threw away his white trousers and made all those miserable speeches in the snow? And couldn't even find anything warm to replace his parade hat.
He must have died when Napoleon rode away.
He probably wished he hadn't thrown away his white trousers. He would have stayed warmer wearing two pairs of trousers, and the white color would haven camouflaged him.
Both Napolean and Hitler are military stupid. invading cool or maintainouis nations are bound to be lost. Same for Americans in Korean war, Same for Russian in Afghanistan.
@MsUoykcuf Korea was a success. Our stated goal was to keep the communists out of the south and we succeeded. Maybe going into North Korea was a mistake, if that's what you mean, but there we were stymied more by China than the weather I believe.
@finrodbrs I studied Korean war, you are right, American 1st marine underestimated Chinese army, Chiniese ambushed and surrounded them on NK mountains. yes, you are right, Chinese stopped the American advance, also the difficult mountains in NK also stopped American and UN troops, then during the winter time, many American and UN soldiers died because they were not used to the NK winter!
@finrodbrs Chinese and USSR made a great mistake, if they completely annihilated and slaughter the surrounded 1st Marine and UN soldiers without listened to UN's plead of mercy letting them escape from eastern NK harbor, Chinese and USSR and NK would have completely take Korea for good. During war there shouldn't be any mercy, go for maximum kill!
Respond to this video... MacArthur was going to drop the A-bomb. Communist Harry S. Truman said no. Boooo Truman. More countries went Red while Truman was in White House, than any other U.S. pres. Alger Hiss was proud. devil that he was.
It was not neccessary to drop the Big One, to end Communism in 1945-46, it would have been enough to strongly support rebellions providing arms and air force support all along Eastern Europe, the Baltic States and Ukrania. Stop any taken of German Scientists and yes getting Alger Hiss, Oppenheimer and other jews like them in jail.
great documentary, Thank you for the time and effort that you've put in to posting these on here. BTW does anybody know the piece's name that's being played throughout this part? I think its Mahler or someone like that but i don't know. Any help with that would be greatly appreciated.
@Ziggurathsss hunger for power is what the rise was as well. Without the hunger for power the best option would be for us to all to kill ourselves in order to escape our own self induced pointlesness.
this excellent video forgot to mention french cannibalism!...the starving living cooked and ate the dead! "an army marches on its stomach!" -napoleon....(also many died of typhus!) / @ milwaukee
Napoleon lost my respect as a once warrior emperor....he left his retreating army like a coward....Did he not know? nor read? of Xenophon of greece and his retreat of 10,000 back home through hostile territory.
@Ziggurathsss power itself isn't bad. The reason you think he should "stay at home" is because of the condition of his troops because of their fall from a position of power. So really your saying it's not worth trying.
@Teranex I know WW2 history lol, just saying comparing it to other occupations it was pretty insignificant seeing as how Russia beat them back all the way to Berlin, it was a tactical failure. So you do yourself a favor and open a history book once in awhile.
@MetallicaFan035 Now you basically said that the German army got defeated. Wow no shit sherlock, still doesn't contradict me. German invasion and occupation>French "long march".
@PhilipK100 - But the Russians let Napoleon into Moscow, Stalin brought 50 fresh Siberian Divisions up to defend Moscow along with what was already there defending huge difference between abandoning the City and all out defending the City
@zenoist2 Would you be able to suggest a good book that would describe and explain the wars going on in Europe in the 1800's? It's time I properly learned how Europe, Russia and North America were shaped - politically - as a result of the wars of the early 1800's. Did any other nation outside Europe or North Africa declare war on France in this peroid?
@vorrifmn "Texas, only steers and queers come from Texas" Full Metal Jacket a Kubric movie. Next time send him to New York it's closer and people actually read.
@Ziggurathsss Nou, De belangrijke bijdragen van troepen uit de Lage Landen is eigenlijk alleen door Napoleon erkend. Hij heeft geschreven dat hij veel respect had voor zijn Nederlandse troepen. Ook schreef hij in zijn memoirs dat zonder troepen uit de Lage Landen de gealieerden het niet zouden hebben gered in de Honderd dagen oorlog.
@lawfuIneutral Dat valt best mee. Napoleon was zeer goed gestemd over zijn Friese troepen. Napoleon heeft hen wel eens als voorbeeld genoemd en zij hebben een belangrijke rol gespeeld bij het helpen oversteken van de Grande Armee op de terugtocht uit Rusland. Sommige gingen dood van de kou toen ze in de rivier stonden.
@lawfuIneutral Ook was een regiment Grenadiers uit de Nederlanden. Als ik mij niet vergis kwam dit regiment aan in een wit uniform in Parijs en kwamen gemarcheerd uit Amsterdam. Zij behoorde tot Napoleons Elite.
things what french did in spain, in italy, in vatican with pope pius 6th etc...
arecccccc 3 weeks ago
Napoleon established hegemony over most of continental Europe and sought to spread the ideals of the French Revolution, while consolidating an imperial monarchy which restored aspects of the deposed ancien régime. Due to his success in these wars, often against numerically superior enemies, he is regarded as one of the greatest military commanders of all time by most military academies to this day...which teaches his strategies applicable still in modern warfare....
ellebal1111 1 month ago
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In addition, Napoleon was fighting the Russians and other armies with equal arms, unlike the German fighting a highly mechanized war with new tactics (blitzkrieg) against poorly equipped Russians and nowhere at equal arms, at least at the beginning...walking to Moscow and back was an incredible feat of strength and endurance! I can't get some kids today to walk 2 city blocks, they walked thousands of miles!!
ellebal1111 1 month ago
Wtf, Napoleon left his men to die, while fleeing under an assumed name back to Paris? That's some Heinrich Himmler shit right there. Napoleon was a coward?
I suddenly have more respect for Hitler, who put a bullet through his head and died with the Reich. Ironically Hitler was more honorable.
PersonalityDeficit87 3 months ago
@PersonalityDeficit87 totally agree with you
arecccccc 3 weeks ago
So many silly comments:
-Napoleon did not want to invade Russia but to fight in a regular way in Poland or West Russia.
-He did not cowardly abandon his troops but constently struggled to maintain order, morale and courage among them during the terrible retreat until he learned that the situation in Paris was unstable (a general had tried to make a Coup d'Etat) so he had to return quickly to fix it.
Simdaperce 3 months ago
@Simdaperce
-Despite the errors he may have done, he remains universally aclaimed by those who know anything about history of warfare as one if not the greatest modern-time military leader. Once was Wellington asked:"Who is the greatest general ?"Wellington answered :"In Past,in Present,in Future - Napoleon."
Simdaperce 3 months ago 5
@Simdaperce then welinton is an idiot
arecccccc 3 weeks ago
Napoleon has lost in Russia over 550 000 soldiers, and all elite guards
LiallisVladik 4 months ago
Its shocking to see the death of 500,000 men and then think of WW2 that killed 60 million. In the 1400s, world population estimates were 350 million. Imagine a war that killed almost 20% of the world's people. Humanity is disturbing.
redarrowhead2 4 months ago
@redarrowhead2 Humans are disguisting, first you have the church that teaches uneducated people to breed many kids (and that God will take care of them and feed them) then the population explodes, there's not enough to eat and the conditions are set to want to invade other countries and steal their resources, poor family planning is the root of all problems, look at 3rd world countries today
VERGIS92 2 months ago
@redarrowhead2 Humanity is horribly disturbing. In a world with murder, rape, hate crimes, political corruption, sociopaths entering high-ranking government positions, famine, disease, war, genocide, child labor, slavery, and anything that hasn't occurred to me at the moment, humanity is one of the most disturbing things out there. If you want to be really horrified by humanity, try reading something about the Holocaust. 17 pages into "Night" by Elie Wiesel, and I'm already feeling misanthropic.
KawaiiLink 1 week ago
rough country even today, in more ways than the weather
redarrowhead2 4 months ago
Excellent quote from Aristotle projectbrumaire...couldn't agree more..the low always are stamped on by the high in society..with heroic overtures to save there precious existences..
custer870 4 months ago
In a country where the winter temperature reaches -25 centigrade, Napoleon came with no clothes for the soldiers. Excellent supplies!
mphet26 4 months ago
Thanks for the upload. Are you going to make these into one video?
arsviatticae 4 months ago
Many thanks for the upload Ziggurathsss
oarfrost 5 months ago
Learn from history.
YksiSuomalainen 6 months ago
Now go and watch War and Peace on Youtube.
Pseudologic 6 months ago
What is this?? One interviewee, many clips from Bonderchuk's "War & Peace", a lone historical reenactor, the occasional primitive CG strategy map and a narrator. LOL. A real mixed bag!
amaxamon 6 months ago
Undefeatable Russia
TheMrJaguarpaw 6 months ago
@TheMrJaguarpaw Poland defeated Russia in 1610 at Smolensk. Poland then occupied Moscow. True, in 1621 the Russian Boyars expelled the Poles. Did this affect the Russians? You bet. The 1612 Russian victory is a Russian holiday to this day!
Undefeatable my eye.
rjpancerniCAUSA 6 months ago
@rjpancerniCAUSA 1612, not 1621
rjpancerniCAUSA 6 months ago
stupid docu
meProudToBeCaucasian 6 months ago
How dreadful.
hm77065 7 months ago
Them being people is not a justification for such cruelity, if anythings its the opposite.
How could they act in such a way on men who are already beaten....
projectbrumaire 8 months ago
@projectbrumaire You have very strange morals. If the French didn't want to be killed in a horrible fashion, they should've stayed home. When you come to another man's home to subjugate rob and kill him, you abandon your rights as a human being.
Pseudologic 6 months ago
@Pseudologic They were conscripts, you peasant. They were forced to be there, and they did everything they could to leave and most succeeded, look at the massive desertion levels! They just wanted to leave, and would all have left whether or not they were scythed down by backward peasant as they dragged themselves along, starved and completely hopeless. That is barbarity, plain and simple.
projectbrumaire 6 months ago
@projectbrumaire Destroying invaders is not barbarity. It's an excellent way to prevent future invasions. Makes conquerors think twice. You're a typical little idiot, who blames everyone, but the criminal for his own misfortune.
Pseudologic 6 months ago
What horror.....I can't believe this really happened....how could the peasants be so cruel.
projectbrumaire 8 months ago
@projectbrumaire You cannot put modern morality on what happened 200 years ago. The peasents of Russia lived in the worst poverty of the time, treated like scum by their own upper class nobility. Then to top it off, the French come in wanting to replace one tyranny with another, it is inevitable that their need for revenge would come to the fore. I quote Aristotle - "At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst."
hugman2009 7 months ago
All people are capable of the worst brutality, history bears this out. Even in our modern world society there are people who commit the most heinous of crimes against their fellow man.
hugman2009 7 months ago
@projectbrumaire
This is higly cynical thing to say. French army killed millions of Russians...and than peasants are cruel to those poor nazis in french uniforms. I keep wondering, why we didnt destroyed Paris to the ground, when we entered it in 1814.
VTBbank 4 months ago
@VTBbank comparing revolutionnary france with nazi germany and hitler with napoleon only makes you an ignorant!
1- napoleon wasn't racist or genocidal
2- he didn't start any war without provocation except the spanish war while hitler kept invading neutral countries without declaration of war.
3- napoleon is one of histories greatest generals, easily top 5 EVER, while hitler disposed of superior forces to his war unprepared enemies, he wasn't brilliant when it was 50-50.
boss180888 4 months ago
Marshall ney comes out of this sad story with shining colours as do the bridge builders at brezina
napoleon abandonded ney and he was lucky to survive.
how to lose 500.000 men in one easy lesson.
just do as Naploleon does.
zenoist2 8 months ago
great docu! thx for uploading.
zenoist2 8 months ago
Napoleon was a coward if you think of it, he deserted his army in Egypt, Russia and Waterloo!
waspnag 8 months ago
Great russia!
Julik1 9 months ago
So what happened to that French guy who was called up from Spain, threw away his white trousers and made all those miserable speeches in the snow? And couldn't even find anything warm to replace his parade hat.
He must have died when Napoleon rode away.
He probably wished he hadn't thrown away his white trousers. He would have stayed warmer wearing two pairs of trousers, and the white color would haven camouflaged him.
kozmon0t 10 months ago
still kind of amazed how higler and napoleon both made the same mistake..
bartosx 10 months ago
@bartosx who's Higler?
sstuddert 10 months ago
Both Napolean and Hitler are military stupid. invading cool or maintainouis nations are bound to be lost. Same for Americans in Korean war, Same for Russian in Afghanistan.
MsUoykcuf 10 months ago
@MsUoykcuf Korea was a success. Our stated goal was to keep the communists out of the south and we succeeded. Maybe going into North Korea was a mistake, if that's what you mean, but there we were stymied more by China than the weather I believe.
finrodbrs 10 months ago
@finrodbrs I studied Korean war, you are right, American 1st marine underestimated Chinese army, Chiniese ambushed and surrounded them on NK mountains. yes, you are right, Chinese stopped the American advance, also the difficult mountains in NK also stopped American and UN troops, then during the winter time, many American and UN soldiers died because they were not used to the NK winter!
MsUoykcuf 10 months ago
@finrodbrs Chinese and USSR made a great mistake, if they completely annihilated and slaughter the surrounded 1st Marine and UN soldiers without listened to UN's plead of mercy letting them escape from eastern NK harbor, Chinese and USSR and NK would have completely take Korea for good. During war there shouldn't be any mercy, go for maximum kill!
MsUoykcuf 10 months ago
@MsUoykcuf USMC division slaughtered PLA Armies. Is the greatest military victory while retreating in history. Die commie scum! Go USA!
rjpancerniCAUSA 6 months ago
Respond to this video... MacArthur was going to drop the A-bomb. Communist Harry S. Truman said no. Boooo Truman. More countries went Red while Truman was in White House, than any other U.S. pres. Alger Hiss was proud. devil that he was.
rjpancerniCAUSA 6 months ago
@rjpancerniCAUSA
It was not neccessary to drop the Big One, to end Communism in 1945-46, it would have been enough to strongly support rebellions providing arms and air force support all along Eastern Europe, the Baltic States and Ukrania. Stop any taken of German Scientists and yes getting Alger Hiss, Oppenheimer and other jews like them in jail.
powerdriller10 5 months ago
@powerdriller10 Sounds good!
rjpancerniCAUSA 5 months ago
great documentary, Thank you for the time and effort that you've put in to posting these on here. BTW does anybody know the piece's name that's being played throughout this part? I think its Mahler or someone like that but i don't know. Any help with that would be greatly appreciated.
johnyprestige 11 months ago
Has anyone here actually read War & Peace?
jdabbott51 1 year ago
@jdabbott51 I have. its a long story.
Adam Zamoyski 1812 napoloeons march on moscow or whatever its called is a good book
zenoist2 11 months ago
Hitler should have learned from Napoleon.
UDSS 1 year ago 2
hunger for power and greed is what the decline is..
Ziggurathsss 1 year ago 6
@Ziggurathsss hunger for power is what the rise is.
TheDavid2222 8 months ago
@Ziggurathsss hunger for power is what the rise was as well. Without the hunger for power the best option would be for us to all to kill ourselves in order to escape our own self induced pointlesness.
TheDavid2222 8 months ago
@TheDavid2222 hmm yes Napoleon wasnt too bad till austerlitz
then he well and truly got carried away.
he thought he was destined.
His russian invasion was wildly optimistic and his army paid the price.
zenoist2 8 months ago
@zenoist2 your probably right. I'm embarrassingly ignorant with this period of history.
TheDavid2222 8 months ago
Even though the French weren't dressed for winter, they could have still controlled Russia if it wasn't for the "Scorched Earth Policy".
I believe the only reason why Napoleon ordered the retreat was because he couldn't feed his troops. (correct me if i'm wrong on this)
TheDetinator868 1 year ago
wait so napoleon just abandoned all those men there and left them to die?
SauffreJet 1 year ago
Marshall Ney is a good example for any high ranking officer.
Lachausis 1 year ago
this excellent video forgot to mention french cannibalism!...the starving living cooked and ate the dead! "an army marches on its stomach!" -napoleon....(also many died of typhus!) / @ milwaukee
bladensburg1814 1 year ago
Napoleon lost my respect as a once warrior emperor....he left his retreating army like a coward....Did he not know? nor read? of Xenophon of greece and his retreat of 10,000 back home through hostile territory.
endlesswaltzhaha 1 year ago
At least Napoleon managed to do what Hitler had failed to do a century and a half later - enter Moscow!!
PhilipK100 1 year ago 16
@PhilipK100 - History shows us that sometimes we can better stay home.
Power has an insatiable appetite
Ziggurathsss 1 year ago 15
@Ziggurathsss power itself isn't bad. The reason you think he should "stay at home" is because of the condition of his troops because of their fall from a position of power. So really your saying it's not worth trying.
TheDavid2222 8 months ago
@PhilipK100 At last Hitler managed to do something what Napoleon didn't, conquer most of European Russia.
Teranex 1 year ago
@Teranex And was swiftly thrust out of it.
MetallicaFan035 1 year ago
@MetallicaFan035 Swiftly? If 3 years is swiftly for you then yes, but in comparison to Napoleon not,.
Teranex 1 year ago
@Teranex 3 years is hardly an occupation or an invasion.
MetallicaFan035 1 year ago
@MetallicaFan035 Hardly an occupation/occupation? Why does then everyone talk about it as being one? Seriously check a history book once in a while.
Teranex 1 year ago
@Teranex I know WW2 history lol, just saying comparing it to other occupations it was pretty insignificant seeing as how Russia beat them back all the way to Berlin, it was a tactical failure. So you do yourself a favor and open a history book once in awhile.
MetallicaFan035 1 year ago
@MetallicaFan035 Now you basically said that the German army got defeated. Wow no shit sherlock, still doesn't contradict me. German invasion and occupation>French "long march".
Teranex 1 year ago
@PhilipK100 - But the Russians let Napoleon into Moscow, Stalin brought 50 fresh Siberian Divisions up to defend Moscow along with what was already there defending huge difference between abandoning the City and all out defending the City
NEWLOVE559 11 months ago
@PhilipK100 and then discovered it was a worthless conquest.
Tha russian army was still in the field and fighting and always a threat.
The tsar was at st petersburg now modern leningrad along with all the apparatus to keep a country functioning.
Napoleons conquest of Moscow amounted to fuck all actually.
zenoist2 8 months ago
@zenoist2 Would you be able to suggest a good book that would describe and explain the wars going on in Europe in the 1800's? It's time I properly learned how Europe, Russia and North America were shaped - politically - as a result of the wars of the early 1800's. Did any other nation outside Europe or North Africa declare war on France in this peroid?
PhilipK100 8 months ago
@PhilipK100 check good website called khanacademy for a wide range of subject, very good videos, complete history of Napoleonic wars...
ellebal1111 1 month ago
@PhilipK100 true
truvianni 7 months ago
@PhilipK100 Moscow wasn't the capital then tho lol.
Vendettare1 5 months ago
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ellebal1111 1 month ago
It's unimaginable what horrors they had to endure...
Gytaz 1 year ago
its amazing how much stuff there is on napoleon, how could anyone complain of a shortage?
890buddha 1 year ago
The best 3 russian generals , october november december
280GTXXX 1 year ago 5
Take that Nap.
toqtaqiya 1 year ago
Damn, such amazing history.
What really pisses me off is that I live in the Bahamas and sent my brother to Texas to find me a book on Napoleon-
They have nothing. they have opera & dog the bounty hunter books- but no Napoleon
vorrifmn 1 year ago 6
@vorrifmn - i can send you some very good pdf's of Napoleoin if you want!
Guido
Ziggurathsss 1 year ago 2
@Ziggurathsss
Sure bro, sounds great
vorrifmn 1 year ago
@Ziggurathsss - well it is about 300 mb so i need to send them to you via Big Files.
There you will receive a link to download the pdf's
give me an adress in private message
thx
Ziggurathsss 1 year ago
@vorrifmn "Texas, only steers and queers come from Texas" Full Metal Jacket a Kubric movie. Next time send him to New York it's closer and people actually read.
mosquito103 11 months ago
@vorrifmn I have 4 books of 1824 "Life of Napoleon Bounapart".Published in London.
Sorry for invasion in your private site.
TheDemerdgi 4 months ago
Werent thos Pontier builders frissians??
DutchPetriot 1 year ago
@DutchPetriot juist vriend! The documentary is not as accurate as it should be. But how can we rewrite history in 48 minutes.... bedankt he ;)
Ziggurathsss 1 year ago
@Ziggurathsss Nou, De belangrijke bijdragen van troepen uit de Lage Landen is eigenlijk alleen door Napoleon erkend. Hij heeft geschreven dat hij veel respect had voor zijn Nederlandse troepen. Ook schreef hij in zijn memoirs dat zonder troepen uit de Lage Landen de gealieerden het niet zouden hebben gered in de Honderd dagen oorlog.
DutchPetriot 1 year ago
@DutchPetriot inderdaad.. eigenlijk twijfel ik eraan of alles wel juist is...
ik ga morgen Napoleon Egypt of zoiets uploaden
grtz
guido
Ziggurathsss 1 year ago
@DutchPetriot met lage landen bedoeld hij vooral Vlaanderen. Die dienst deden in het standaard Franse leger niet als vreemde hulp troepen.
lawfuIneutral 1 year ago
@lawfuIneutral Dat valt best mee. Napoleon was zeer goed gestemd over zijn Friese troepen. Napoleon heeft hen wel eens als voorbeeld genoemd en zij hebben een belangrijke rol gespeeld bij het helpen oversteken van de Grande Armee op de terugtocht uit Rusland. Sommige gingen dood van de kou toen ze in de rivier stonden.
DutchPetriot 1 year ago
@lawfuIneutral Ook was een regiment Grenadiers uit de Nederlanden. Als ik mij niet vergis kwam dit regiment aan in een wit uniform in Parijs en kwamen gemarcheerd uit Amsterdam. Zij behoorde tot Napoleons Elite.
DutchPetriot 1 year ago
he does not mention cannalbalism?
Rico8458 1 year ago
@Rico8458 - even the germans in the second world war at Stalingrad.
we can hardly imagine
Ziggurathsss 1 year ago
NP made a horrible mistake for staying in russia so long. after borodino he was suppose to retreat back home.
Rico8458 1 year ago
thanks for posting
MrSNOWBLAST 1 year ago 2
@MrSNOWBLAST - so little to find about this ...
i love the reportage
Ziggurathsss 1 year ago