Word: napoleon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hornblower's spectacular sea fights, his three engagements against the 50-gun Spanish man-of-war Natividad off the coast of South America, his daring raids on French men-of-war in the Mediterranean, his recapture of a British 10-gun cutter at Nantes, his escape from Napoleon's firing squad...
...description of Europe's greatest previous secret policeman-Napoleon's Minister of Police Joseph Fouché-as a "cold, selfish, remorseless fanatic" fits Policeman Himmler too. Of all the Nazi leaders, he is the most uncompromising, the least likely to show mercy or kindness. He is also unique among Nazi big shots in that he literally grew up with the Party, never knew or worked at much of anything else...
France started the policy of conscription in 1798 in the aftermath of the Revolution. Oddly enough, it was the revolutionary cry of equality-even equality in the matter of dying for one's country-which replaced the professional soldier with the soldier drawn from public lists. Napoleon Bonaparte, "Son of the Revolution," believed that "God marches with the biggest battalions"; in 1813, at the zenith of his success, he commanded a conscripted army of 1,140,000 men. In the wake of Napoleonic conquests most countries of Europe adopted conscription until, in the World War, some...
...that made years ago to France and last week to Poland), foreign military men were apt to ask embarrassing questions about the size of the British Army. France long ago let it be known that she was interested in getting British cannon fodder as well as British cannon. What Napoleon, Tsar Nicholas I and Boer General Christian De Wet all failed to force Britain to do, Adolf Hitler may yet accomplish...
...Vernet were more delicate if less vigorous draftsmen, though they early showed a fondness for scatological as well as lubricous humor. To such a gross commentary as Rowlandson's The Arch Duchess Marie Louise going to have her Nap (showing the future Empress of France in bed with Napoleon), Satirist Carle Vernet was able to reply with an incomparably more subtle study called Les Anglais a Paris, three figures of a girl, a fat boy, and a military popinjay which still contain nearly all the French have to say about the English character...