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Napoleon by andrew roberts6/28/2023 ![]() ![]() The impossibility of defeating his most persistent enemy, Great Britain, led him to make draining and ultimately fatal expeditions into Spain and Russia, where half a million Frenchmen died, and his empire began to unravel. In a series of dazzling battles, he reinvented the art of warfare in peace he completely remade the laws of France, modernised her systems of education and administration, and presided over a flourishing of the beautiful Empire style in the arts. In the space of just 20 years, from October 1795, when as a young artillery captain he cleared the streets of Paris of insurrectionists, to his final defeat at the (horribly mismanaged) battle of Waterloo in June 1815, Napoleon transformed France and Europe.Īfter seizing power in a coup d'état, he ended the corruption and incompetence into which the revolution had descended. ![]() Napoleon Bonaparte lived one of the most extraordinary of all human lives. ![]()
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