Word: napoleonism
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...functions. The Chief of Staff became one of the most ardent MacArthur disciples. He looks on his superior as the 20th Century's outstanding military genius; he will not rank MacArthur for all time, "because it's hard to compare the present day with the time of Napoleon, Caesar or Hannibal...
...NAPOLEON'S MEMOIRS [605 pp.) -Edited by Somerset de Chair-Harper...
...have been severely scolded today over my laziness," said the exiled Napoleon Bonaparte to his companions one dinnertime at St. Helena. "I am therefore going to start work again [dictating my memoirs...
Thereafter, for close on five years, Napoleon dictated. The final but still incomplete result was seven unorganized volumes about everything under the sun (including nine chapters on Frederick the Great). It was no wonder that the only English translation went out of print after 1823, and that until 1950 no U.S. edition was ever published...
...Protection" for Parma. Britain's Somerset de Chair, onetime M.P. and officer in the Royal Horse Guards, has edited and organized the Napoleonic hodgepodge. Pruned of its grossest irrelevancies and chronologically reassembled, the Memoirs now sweep the reader in a hedgehopping rush from Author Napoleon's small start in Corsica to his triumph at Marengo (1800), then make a 15-year leap to his return from Elba and his downfall at Waterloo. Still lacking (because Napoleon never lived to write them) are accounts of his imperial heyday, his victories at Jena and Austerlitz, the disastrous Russian campaign...