Napoleon Bonaparte was a supreme opportunist, driven by a burning desire for power. In 1899 he judged that the momentum of the French revolutionary had burned itself out the time was ripe for a popular soldier with a genius for organization to take control. Unlike the monarchs in Vienna, St. Petersburg and London, Napoleon as the son of provincial lawyer could never claim to derive authority from descent. He enjoyed complete loyalty of the army. His brilliant military strategies won him control of most of Europe. The conquered people of Europe finally banded together to defeat Napoleon.
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a liberal dictator...
Don't you mean 1799?
I look up to this man! :D
me too i want to be like kim when i grow up
Vive L'Emperuer!
Thanks a lot for the video. It's great.
He used the Pope to make the Emperor legitimate, and he was not in love with the women except those he married plus he made love as quickly as he ate meals
with the mentality of a sexually frustrated 40 year old. I mean come on- proclame oneself Emperor through referandum? What a dickhead.
Napoleon was brilliant, but he was just as lucky if not more so. He was always egocentric, and once he got too powerful he went down the path of MacBeth and became more cruel.
sexually frustred? stupid man, he had 20 ilegall woman!