d'honneur. it was created by napoleon. it’s kind of like knighthood in the uk, except we had a revolution. so we don't call people “sir.” does that come with weaponry? no, they don't have swords and stuff like that. but people who have it can wear a little red stripe on ...
Napoleon, the night before the Battle of Austerlitz The night before his greatest victory – the Battle of Austerlitz – Napoleon went round the tents of his troops, making sure they’d had their rations and that they were settling down quietly. It was a task that was hardly required by ...
(JEFFERSON) Dispersed as JEWS they still form one nation, foreign to the land they live in. (FRANKLIN) I fully agree with General Washington that we must protect this young nation from an insidious influence and penetration. That menace, gentlemen, is the JEWS. (NAPOLEON) The JEWS are ...
Why? Because having absolute power over a few subordinates hardly makes you Napoleon. To achieve great power, you need to become the master of many. You need to accumulate subordinates. PATHWAY TO POWER 2: ACCUMULATE DIRECT SUBORDINATES With Napoleon as your inspiration, you set out to ...
France under Napoleon III was certainly a member of the lingering Concert institutions, but it also hoped to transform this order into a forum for national rights.32There are important revisionists among “minor” powers as well. East-ernEuropeofthe1930swaspopulatedwithrevisioniststates—Hungary,...
1801:Franz Carl Achard, a student of Margraff, is credited as the first person to extract sugar from beets on a commercial level. 1815The beet sugar industry thrives in Europe through the Napoleonic Wars, though Napoleon is the subject of much ridicule for supporting the industry. When the wa...
I’ve come across a few Chinese who think it was a pity Britain didn’t wholly take over China as they did India. I don’t agree, but anyway it was not a realistic option. The British Empire was over-extended if it was to remain in the hands of the British-based elites that had...
“Iron Chancellor” was now subordinated to a pacified and democratic Europe. This new German self-understanding was most strikingly manifested in the ways, against ideology, in which Helmut Kohl, of the CDU, and François Mitterrand, of the Parti Socialist, negotiated the grand event of the ...
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