Word: napoleonism
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...Army now uses more radio equipment than was manufactured for the entire nation in peacetime. The Signal Corps, which operates it, has more men than Napoleon's whole force at Waterloo. Aside from radar, electronics is one of the most versatile developments of World War II. In industry, electronic tubes perform such diversified jobs as shutting off the air in a Bessemer furnace when the molten steel reaches exactly the right white-hot brilliance, tempering shell casings to toughen them, examining all sorts of materials for hidden flaws...
...Protestant and Catholic wings, Britons have been opposed to European unification. Marlborough, Pitt and Wellington have all fought to keep a balance of power on the European continent, and the small trading nations-The Netherlands, the Scandinavian countries-have usually welcomed British intercession. When madmen like the French Bourbons, Napoleon and Hitler have tried to reconstitute the fabric of a united Europe by force, they have gone down to defeat...
...Most potent Greek underground is the Leftish EAM (National Liberation Front) with its guerrilla army, the ELAS (People's Liberation Army.) The EDES (National Democratic Army), under "General" Napoleon Zervas, occupies a middle ground. The EKKA (National and Social Liberation), headed by a mystery man called Colonel Psarros, is at present inactive but potentially rightish. As with most undergrounds, definitions are fluid, subject to change without notice...
...real reason was different and deeper. At a moment when the French Revolution had led first to the Terror, next to Napoleon, and third to the edge of the abyss of world dictatorship, Wellington's task was to prove to the people by his leadership that conservatism was in their interest, as he had proved to his army that his strategy was better than Napoleon's. Wellington suffered from many things-fever and loneliness in India that turned his hair grey at 32, a botched marriage; disgrace and empty victory and the fanatical hatred of some...
...Peninsular War Wellington reestablished the ancient Portuguese military law of Ordenanza. Under this, at the approach of the enemy, all civilian men became militia, all the people left their houses, destroying all food stocks. In this dress rehearsal for the scorched earth policy which, two years later, Napoleon met in Russia, the French troops discovered "with surprise at first, then with anger, and finally with something like dismay, that they were entering a devastated country whose inhabitants had vanished. Towns and villages and hamlets were empty and ominously silent; no obsequious mayors came forward to placate the victors; crops...