Word: napoleonism
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...sense. Studying the battles of England from India to Copenhagen, and leading the armies in the ones that England won, he was all the more aware of that lack of common sense for a reason that neither his friends, his enemies, nor he himself observed: in the days of Napoleon he had almost a world monopoly...
...Duke of Wellington did both. When he returned to England after beating Napoleon's marshals in Spain, Englishmen made the dusty turnpike road from Dover to London "one long roaring cheer." He rode unmoved, and apparently unhearing, through 60 solid miles of praise. He believed that if you ignored the fickle crowd's catcalls you should also ignore its plaudits, and as a commander in Spain he had had to ignore its criticisms. Not many years later he was the most unpopular man in England. Once a huge mob stormed his mansion and smashed every window while...
Total Symmetry. There was an absolute symmetry in Wellington's political, social and military theory. Author Aldington calls him a world policeman. This is Aldington's way of acknowledging the fact that in Wellington, as in Napoleon, political theory and military strategy were inseparable. The clarity of the Duke's political vision, his mere knowledge of what kind of a world he wanted to gain, preserve and extend determined his actions as directly as the hills and the forts, the number of his troops and his opponents'. The difference was that Napoleon's achievements...
...Romans posted a garrison and Garibaldi beat the Neapolitans. Above Rome, they might run a barricade along the Apennines, from La Spezia on the Ligurian Sea to Rimini on the Adriatic. Above that barrier the land sloped down to the Po Valley, and beyond towered the Alps. Napoleon once had hacked a way across that rampart of nature, via Tarvis and Klagenfurt, toward Vienna. But it was formidable. Rather than a direct road to Germany, Italy might be a flank for other bridgeheads. > Italy leads to southern France. Because the Alpine passes narrow and drop steeply on the Italian side...
...bent for vendettas and guerrilla fighting in the blood-red rocks, the snow-capped peaks. D'Istria armed the Corsicans with 10,000 submachine guns (dropped by parachute, hauled in by submarine). He fired them with the memory and the zeal of the greatest Corsican of them all-Napoleon Bonaparte...