Incorrect historical memes

>>879131
> History is decided primarily by battles

>>879136
>Napoleon wasn't defeated at Waterloo

>>879131
Blucher never learned how to read a map and he only knew one direction: forwards.

>>880091
But his enemies only knew one direction as well: the ground.

>the sun never sets on the British Empire
Bonus points because people still repeat it

>>879179
>Napoleon wasn't defeated by the terminal economic shittery just like the Soviets

>>879131

If the alliance had lost at Waterloo, the war would have continued and British naval supremacy would have settled the matter eventually.

>>880102
>the Soviets weren't defeated because of the war in Afghanistan

>>880114
>if by British naval supremacy....

you mean the Russian army.

The Brits (or rather, a few Brits and a ton of Germans, Dutch, and Belgians) did a pretty good job wearing the French army down though.

>>880097
well technically it's correct if you include commonwealth countries.

>>880118
>Napoleon and the Soviets didnt both enter into wars of attrition they were never going to win because they didnt have the economies to support them

>>879131
Wasn't success at Waterloo pretty dependent on the Brits wearing down Napoleon's forces?

>>880171
It was probably also helped along by Marshal d'Erlon getting lost several times.

>>880174
Goddamn Frogs and their map reading skills (or lack thereof). Same kinda shit hit Grouchy when he was looking for the Prussians.

>>880132

Potato, kartoshka. Whatever get's the job done. Waterloo was Nappy's last play, but it wasn't Welly's last.

>>880171
Not "Brits". Wellington had an Allied army mostly composed of soldiers from the German states.

>>879136
>History isn't primarily decided by battles