What went wrong?
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What went wrong?
The winter
>>788790
shit logistics in supply lines
>mason spike
Nothing, it was a beautiful tragedy, shame that Kubrick never made that movie
>>788790
>What went wrong?
He is a manlet
>>788811
When his men started defecting to him after his return, he must have felt that his life was a story, and this was going to be the part where he rallies France into conquering Europe. It all read too much like a story about a hero.
This guy
>>788790
>What went wrong?
Alexander I. France was done when they wasted all those soldiers on Russia.
>What went wrong?
He tried to civilize east slavs.
>>788849
Why did he think invading Russia was a good idea again?
Not treating defeated enemies magnanimously and thereby guaranteeing resentment, putting retard relatives on thrones and pissing off the locals, not teaching his Marshals about independent command, invading Russia with no real idea of why he was doing it or what the plan was.
>>788790
Overconfidence and the limitations of technology and orginization of the time.
>>789174
Because he thought a flash conquest would be quicker and less expensive than just creating a defensive front in Poland. He thought Russia would fall with Moscow.
If you mean why did he attack Russia at all, well that would be due to Alex being an extremely wishy washy ally wanting to be allied to both Prussia and France, and Russia having conflicting interests in Poland and the Baltic.
The Torres Vedras fucked him over pretty hard. Had Masséna not been first slowed by them and then ruined by winter, desertion and normal battle losses (losing a huge part of l'Armée de Portugal), he may have taken Lisbon and hugely set back Britain and allies. How they managed to build it in complete secrecy is amazing, to be honest.
>>789192
>Not treating defeated enemies magnanimously and thereby guaranteeing resentment
He did though
When he defeated Austria in 1809, he left them remain sovereign and keep most of their territory despite the fact it was the third time in the decade they had attacked France
When he BTFO Russia in 1807, he offered them a very kind peace, almost treating Czar Alexander as an equal, even though it had been the third time Russia attacked France in a spawn of a few years
Napoleon was magnanimously, but it wasnt enough to let all these monarchs accept him among them, for he wasnt born one of them
>>789344
>Napoleon was magnanimously, but it wasnt enough to let all these monarchs accept him among them, for he wasnt born one of them
>people actually believe this
Napoleon was seen as an aggressive conqueror leading a country strong enough to take over the whole continent. That's why he kept being attacked, not because he was born a commoner. His threat wasn't social, it was military.
>>788811
this, fuck I would have loved to see it
