Napoleonic wars for idiots :P

The Napoleonic Wars explained so a idiot could understand, lol.
But, here is basiclly what really happoned, cause I know I was over simplifying and wrong about some things, i was just getting the mainpoints I could fit in without making it boring. So, after hundreds of years of the Acient Regime, the people of France got rlly pissed, and in 1791, uprisings broke out. In 1792 an agreement between Louis XVI and the rebels created a consitutional Monarchy, which resulted in Louis being forced to declare war on Austria, and Prussia joins the war as Austria's ally. Louis was eventually arrested however, and exicuted. Spain entered the anti-French Coalition (but soon joined the French) and France declared War on Great Britain and Holland. Under a new General for Corsica, Napoleon, the French Army took and beat most of its enamies, failing only in Egypt. Peace was declared but ended after both sides violated the treaty. France turned on its Spanish allies several years after Trafalgar, and while britain was fighting in Spain Napoleon invaded Russia, and lost due to the cold and starvation. He returned to France as the rest of Europe took up arms against him (after failing in the last war and the 3rd Coaltition). With the Austrians, Prussians, and Russians attacking from the east, and the British from the west, Napoleon was forced to abdicate, returning less than a years later for a 100 days long campaign after Europe refused his request for peace. The British and prussians (who arrived late in the battle) fought him at waterllo and won, under the command of The Duke opf Wellington and Marshal Blusher. Holland and other allies thought as well as Britain's bitches

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[tyrannasaurasalan]

Uh I don't remember anything about "Rome getting pissed" (unless you mean the Pope and Church) elaborate.

[nooo8oooo]

@tyrannasaurasalan thats exactly what I meant.

[CarlBewley]

@nooo8oooo - And Rome isn't a country either. It's a capital. Of Italy. You're welcome.

[nooo8oooo]

@CarlBewley There was no nation called Italy back then. Italy back then was a bunch of smaller nations :P. One was the papal states, which wsa directly controlled by Rome and was often referred to as Rome. You're welcome

[MaxRWF]

He abolished serfdom, inquisition, torture, discrimination against women and jews, he imposed the Civil Code which makes everyone legally equal, he rewarded people on their abilities (and not on birth) and he never started a war.

It surely doesn't make him a Saint but it makes him much more great than the Kaiser of Austria, the Tzar of Russia or the King of Britain...

[MaxRWF]

Whatever your biased point of view may be, France DID abolish slavery 39 years before Britain. This had for immediate result that French slave owners in Guadeloupe or Martinique welcomed British troops, so they could keep their juicy business under their occupation. Napoleon was not a suporter of slavery (he was nourrished with enlightment ideals), his decision to reintroduce slavery was purely pragmatical : it meant to preserve the support of the French Caribbean elite.

[TheLiberalKnight]

@MaxRWF OK, so the Roman Republic was not a democracy either then, where probably 0.1% of the population could vote.

You are a fact twister. France did NOT abolish slavery in 1794. You still took huge incomes from the slave colonies in the carribean. That was nothing but revolutionary rhetoric. As for Persia, it was easy for them to abolish it when so little of their national income depended on it.

[MaxRWF]

@TheLiberalKnight Get your facts right :

- When less than 1% of the population has the right to vote, this is not democracy, it's called an oligarchy or a plutocracy...

-The first country in the world to abolish slavery wasn't Britain, it was Achemenid Persia in 550 BC. Even France abolished slavery in 1794, before Britain (although it was reinstated by a subsequent government).

[TheLiberalKnight]

@MaxRWF Do you consider the Roman Republic to be a democracy? If so, Britain was a democracy for hundreds of years before France.

1833 or 1808, it doesn't matter. The fact remains, the British were the first country in the world to abolish slavery.

[MaxRWF]

@TheLiberalKnight The British oligarchy didn't abolish slavery until 1833, in 1808 it barely forbid the slave trade. The same oligarchy which forbade British commoners to vote until 1919 ! But thankfully, French revolutionary ideals prevailed everywhere and good ole' England is now also a democracy.

[TheLiberalKnight]

@MaxRWF Funny how Napoleon strangely forgot to include rights for black people, though. Hmmm. He kept slavery when the 'King of Britain' and his government abolished it.

[TMDF100]

Also it omits the fact that Napoleon's armies marched through the streets of Vienna, Berlin and Moscow the three of the other four major powers!

[TMDF100]

This video is so rubbish! It doesn't say anything about the Napoleonic wars except the very minimal at a British biased view. It doesn't mention anything about the French victories, which there were more of than defeats and it also makes It out the British won the wars! Napoleon was exiled not because of the peninsula war but because the combined forces of Russia, Prussia and Austria reached Paris. It also doesn't mention France won the wars of the 1st,2nd,3rd,4th and 5th wars of coalition.