Like it or not, Napoleon has been the victim of a 200 year old smear campaign that still exists today. For the simple reason that if Napoleon was right, then they must've been wrong, Britain (and to a lesser extent the rest of the Allied countries) have made it a top priority throughout the years to make sure people think it was all Napoleons fault for the violence of the early 1800's. And they are good at it. The Britons...
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The greatest threat to peace in Europe in the early nineteenth century was the British Cabinet. With its millions in subsidies it fought a mainly proxy war against France before Napoleon, and France under Napoleon. It was other countries that basically did the dying for British ends. England had been fighting France for decades and, still smarting over the loss of the American colonies, who won their freedom with crucial French...
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"According to these authors, it is a myth of the Napoleonic wars that Napoléon was a megalomaniacal conqueror who bled Europe dry in order to satisfy his insatiable love for war. Certainly, such is the most widely printed and accepted description of Napoléon's motive. After all, history is written by the victors. In this book, however, retired French general Franceschi and Weider (coauthor with Sten Forshufvud, Assassination...
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I have just read the outstanding book titled, "The Wars Against Napoleon," written by Dr. Ben Weider and General Michel Franceschi. Placing Napoleon's civil, diplomatic and military accomplishments in the context of a European counter revolution, Dr. Weider and General Franceschi make a strong case against the widely held image of Napoleon as a war-loving conqueror. Instead they argue that Napoleon was a man of peace, forced...
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The president of the International Napoleonic Society, Canadian entrepreneur Dr. Ben Weider has done it again. The world's foremost Napoleonic expert took on - and beat! -- the entrenched battalions of the "Napoleon-istas" (French academics who consider anything even remotely Napoleonic to be their exclusive "turf") with his 1982 book, The Murder of Napoleon, and the society's 20-page, 2004 report, The Poisoning of Napoleon:...
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