Is Napoleon's return from Elba one of the greatest moments in history?
On par with the crossing of the Rubicon and man walking on the moon?
What is /his/ nominations for greatest moments in history?
No, he failed.
>>1373252
It was great sure, but nowhere near one of the greatest moments in human history.
Da Yu is supposed to have united the clans living along China’s Yellow River by persuading them to co-operate in a huge network of channels and canals to end its devastating floods in 2000BC
The link between rivers such as the Yellow, the Nile, the Tigris and the Indus, and the growth of early civilisations is very strong. To tame them, or irrigate, people have to be organised and submit to some kind of authority. So rulers and classes emerge.
I'll throw this one out
>>1373252
The mile dash at Marathon
>Is Napoleon's return from Elba one of the greatest moments in history?
Didn't he get sent back a few weeks later?
>>1373438
It's interesting how Chinese civilization stands apart from the others, even in its god-king creation myths. Every other civilization begins with violence of some kind: overthrowing a tyrant, sexing up your mother, invading some place because your brand-specific deity told you to, etc. Han China however is
>Gud seson 4 crops
>Noblman, swerve
>when im don im gonna groom th fuk out of thos crops
>cant even eat w/o crops fucking omg
>>1374839
No, they sent him to a damp island in the middle ot nowhere because they were afraid that he might come back yet again, condemning him to a miserable death.
Fucking perfidious Albion.
>>1374726
It never happened tho.
>You will never follow Napoleon until the end...
>>1374945
Can't be replicated =/= didn't happen
