Word: napoleonism
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...Hitler was not resorting to Napoleon's trick of announcing losses of only a fraction of those actually incurred, these were amazingly low figures for German casualties. Herr Hitler also announced that his troops had captured 320,062 "purely Serbian prisoners," 218,000 Greeks, all of whom may be freed, and over 9,000 British Empire troops...
Since the Emperor Napoleon III pacified Cambodia in 1863, inhabitants of that teeming, steaming puppet State in southern French Indo-China have flourished and multiplied under but three kings. Sisowath I, the second of these, died ripely at the age of 87, survived by 800 widows. Stout, chatty Sisowath II, who followed him, made the good-humored best of a job in which the emoluments were determined largely by the necessities of Finance Ministers in Paris...
German-born, best-selling Biographer Emil Ludwig (Napoleon, Bismarck, Roosevelt) went to work for nothing for the U.S. Treasury Department. His job: to help explain the defense savings program to German-Americans...
...Napoleon died at fifty...
...Drawer" of Harper's Monthly, ran Harper's Weekly until Colonel George Harvey crowded him out. He set a whole generation's style of tame, facile humor, in which the cheerful shades of the great pseudophilosophized and gagged politely (sample: Wellington pulls a campstool from under Napoleon). His House Boat on the Styx became a best-seller and was credited with having relieved the U.S. reading public of its fear of hell...