Why was Napoleon's rule considered democratic despotism? Why was there an Ionian Revolt? Why did Athens win the Battle of Marathon? Why did Athens undertake the Sicilian Expedition during the Peloponnesian War? Why did the Roman Republic become an empire?
Why did France lose the French and Indian War? Why was Napoleon Bonaparte important to the Louisiana Purchase? What happened to Napoleon from 1799-1814? Why was he exiled? Why was the Peninsular War difficult on French troops? Why did Napoleon design a blockade in 1806? Why was Napoleon a...
not far from the Bastille. His Minister of the Interior informed him that because the area was so densely populated, among other reasons, the project would be far too costly. Napoleon was thus convinced to have it built at the west end of the city, where since 1670 (Louis XIV, again) ...
Napoleon was banished to the tiny island of Elba, which lies just off the Italian coast and the monarchy was restored to France, the exiled king taking the throne as King Louis XVIII. The French government were supposed to provide Napoleon with a pension, which they failed to pay. At the...
75. La Roue (1923), France, directed by Abel Gance Napoleon is Abel Gance's best known film because it has been restored and given a new musical score. But La Roue is at least as good, a love story about a locomotive driver. It's over-the-top, sentimental, yet it shows the passi...
The Jura crisis was small in scale but large in significance, like so much in Swiss history. The origins of today's troubles can be seen in the debris left by Napoleon's new order. Before 1789 the Jura districts had belonged to the prince-bishop of Basel. Exiled by the Reformation, ...
Kissinger should have known better than to have so underestimated the strength of America, since he certainly would have known how Napoleon had foolishly dismissed England as "a nation of shopkeepers" -- where the shopkeepers built a navy that sank Napoleon's, and then carried him to exile on...
from Revolutionary France down to the disintegrating state that the US imposed on Iraq after first carefully uprooting an intolerant but functional Baathist state. Sothe failure of theWestern-styleChineseRepublicwas a thoroughly normal event. What would have been surprising would have been if it had...
Trump was a businessman, and he promised to run the country like a business. Every beloved small mom-and-pop business is a dictatorship in miniature, helmed by some grubby little Napoleon who leches on the employees, issues memos on acceptable hairstyles, or forces them to listen to his ...
Why did France join WW1? Why is Louis XIV of France considered an absolute monarch? (Give examples.) Why did France become involved in the American Revolution? Why did Louis IX go on two Crusades? Why was Emperor Louis-Napoleon imprisoned and exiled to England in 1870?