As soon as I heard that I thought "Oh no, your comments section!"

🤣

I got what I deserved

"Corpse" is rather apropos, all things considered.

How about some Islamic sources in the future? The Jahangirnama for instance. . .

Well, yeah, we wouldn't have this account had he not.

@@westenicho grow up

@@westenicho Depends when he wrote it.

Well, Napoleon actually had 30 000 soldiers when he left Russia. Almost the same amount was under command of general Schwarzenberg, who's company was almost unaffected during the war. And there were also flank corpses and lots of straggling soldiers, who made their way out of Russia themselves. So there were almost 100 000 soldiers who returned to Poland. And speaking about captives: the Russian Senate was officially informed about 110 000 captives who were taken throughout the war. It's not like being a captive in that period is an easy thing, but many of them survived and were returned to their homeland up to 1814. Of course, it doesn't cancel the fact that more than a half of Napoleon's army died, not speaking about those who were injured, but still it's not true to say that "very, very few made it back".

@@ivanivan2390 First of all, when I said 'made it back' I'm referring to those who participated in the main action of the campaign and returned to Poland. We can thus dismiss from calculations both the Austrian contingent and the Prussians (who essentially capitulated), as well as those left on guard duty on the border. Second, none of the figures involved are known to any degree of certainty, so the numbers you're claiming can't be asserted as correct. There are various estimates for how many soldiers crossed the Neman into Russia with the campaign, ranging from 400,000 to 650,000. The estimates for those who died, either in battle or on the march, is 300,000 to 400,000 (so actually closer to two thirds or three quarters rather than your 'more than half'). Perhaps 50,000 to 80,000 deserted. How many survived is unknown but probably very few. Approximately 100,000 prisoners were taken by the Russians, but given the conditions of the retreat, when most were taken, and the fact that the lands through which the campaign had been led were already stripped bare, it's very unlikely that the majority lived to be repatriated. Many of the Germans were pressed into Russian service, which certainly increased their chances of survival. The estimates for those soldiers who recrossed the Neman alive are 30,000 to 70,000. That would amount to a 1-in-8 (at most) to 1-in-20 (at least) survival rate. It's really rather difficult to over-emphasize quite how appalling that is for a military campaign. Of course, many of those who left Russia still didn't survive the war, either being killed in battle between 1813 and 1815, or dying of wounds and disease. So all in all, then, my original statement is entirely correct.

Great! Never heard bout him!

Never heard about it, thank you for sharing!

That sounds fascinating

Interesting!

Thank you for the info

Anyone who has been to war will tell you, its the "down time" that sucks the worst. Battles are quick, and exciting. An adrenaline rush like no other. But long marches? Hunger? Cold, sleepless nights? Disease? This is what you need to vent about

I think a lot of the time soldiers back then had very little understanding of the battle going on as a whole. I remember in one part of the book he just describes his encampment getting hit by cannons and soldiers' legs getting ripped off from under them, it was a very confusing affair. Battles from a history buff's perspective, with all the charges, routs, and artillery exchanges can make for a good story, but from each individual soldier's perspective they might have seen only a small part of the battle.

@@John_on_the_mountain go enjoy.

A lot of soldier diaries read pretty similarly. We read some diaries from soldiers in the American Civil War in one of my classes, and it was pretty similar, even during sieges. There are a surprising amount of points where they just gloss over things with lines like "The constant barrage of artillery was numbing to the mind. I miss my family, and good food." but then describe daily struggles of marching, socializing with the other soldiers, reminiscing about home, melancholic/philosophical descriptions of the death and destruction. Lots of poetry too.

@@matthewmoore1780 Back then? The tradition of "first to go, last to know" continues, trust me.

Affected, no?

Since Russia has attrition bonus.

@@nanonymous9139 600k men campaigning in some of the most impoverished areas in Europe will suffer attrition regardless of the scorching of the earth.

It means nothing until you hear this lol. I think I'll have a mini break down whenever it appears.

@The Snow Nigro most of it was lost in summer, and no strategy games do not downplay attrition. Play Eu4 and see how many you can loose to attrition

He lived to age 78. Must have been a tough bugger.

Napoleon is not some great figure of history who was gentle of nature, he was a monster who inflicted misery, pain and devastation on multiple nations, decimated the French populous, killed off many of his men. For what? The greater glory of France?

@@mwnciboo you know- right? Historically speaking, Napoleon is by all accounts the precursor to Hitler, yet he is nowhere near as vilified or damned by memory. I wondered for long why that is, truly..

@@markeedeep I will tell you exactly why....It is the biased revisionist history, biased historians changed the narrative of Napoleon to portray a false image and lie to the rest of the world. The biased historians who rewrote the narrative can't have a warmongering military dictator with a powerful army almost conquer all of Europe, so they changed him into a noble and military genius to hide the truth. So many people are just blindly following this overt revisionist history. If people would just use a little common sense, look at the mass resources Napoleon had to work with, look at the terrible outcome for Napoleon and France, question just a little bit the narrative promulgated, you would actually see just what an incompetent, reckless, warmongering military dictator Napoleon was. You would see how he destroyed his own mighty army, left France occupied, defeated and forced to change governments radically. See, the biased historian wants to remind you how brilliant the Battle of Austerlitz was, never mind how Napoleon left France defeated, occupied, loss of territory and its once overwhelming army completely destroyed. Also the biased historian tells you that Egypt was brilliant, despite it actually being a foolish invasion and that Napoleon left the French Navy as sitting ducks as it was utterly destroyed, but who needs a Navy anyways. But you should have seen the artwork taken from Spain, never mind the 300,000 dead French soldiers lying under Spanish soil, Napoleon having no answers for guerrilla warfare, or Wellington's southern invasion France, there can always will be more conscripts. And Wellington, he had a good opinion of Napoleon, it's important for the British to claim they beat a "genius" in Napoleon and not a madman. There is no prestige or honor in beating a madman, a madman beats himself, not like Napoleon did anything of the sort. But beating a genius, well that just makes you more of a genius. Russia?....Hey, anyone can make a mistake. Napoleon was only human, stuff happens. But you should have seen the 6 day Campaign, utterly brilliant. Never mind that Paris was easily conquered and Napoleon forced to abdicate for incompetence. Yes, but Napoleon was trying so hard to spread liberal reforms across Europe. True that he usurped power, ran a Police-State, quashed freedom of expression, tried to give European thrones to his own corrupt family members. True that he had his soldiers, who were forced into service with no say in the matter, live off the land by pillaging the food, looting goods, and murder any civilian that protests, but it is the noble ideas Napoleon claimed to portray that count. Also ignore the Invasion of Haiti to re-enslave the black population, how he tried to poison his own troops in Egypt, and that he was probably responsible for more deaths of Frenchmen than anyone in history.

@@markeedeep Because Hitler was responsible for the Holocaust and Napoleon was responsible for.. the Napoleonic code?

@@stratdaddy I get the difference, but you would have at least thought Napoleon got killed off as someone who dared to lay conquest to all of known Europe in his day, but not only did he simply get exiled to a far away, deserted island as a "punishment", France as a whole lived to see another day as a free nation pretty much pardoned and without having to incur any kind of cost even comparable to that incurred by Germany for losing wwii. Certainly the stakes were greatly raised with regards to the latter, because of the scale of devastation wrought by advanced, modern warfare, but that the powers of Napoleon's day pretty much left France alone after his deposition, seems very fishy to me.

What happened there,I don't get it

@@georgepats1168 On the retreat from Moscow, the starving French had discovered a cellar beneath a mansion. In desperate search of food many rushed in, got too tight and trampled over by those coming into the cellar.

People do that at soccer matches to this day

@Ярослав Л Only western countries do that? Look at the human species as a whole

@Ярослав Л Bold of you to assume I'm from the West

That and, you know, not catching a bunch of canister shot in the chest.

Luck is why he survived. I don't know about you but I'd rather be lucky than good at something. Especially when you're talking about war...

@@TLN-qu4rq I'll take consistent luck over skill, but I'll take skill over normal luck.

His faithfulness to GOD did.

@@truthteller3288 You're a genius.

every writing i hear of people born centuries ago always sound like they're written by poets. Nowadays its not even comparable.

Don't blame people. They were never taught

Eyo wuz good homie, your tryinna say somethin?

That's more because language tends to get simpler over time. More "eloquent" and complex language simply was the norm in the past, whereas nowadays it has gotten simpler.

Good Lord... This guy is a multi pulitzer prize winning author compared to your average youtube commenter.

“Welcome to Bratislava! It’s good you came in summer. In winter, it can be veeery depressing”

@@SKa-tt9nm its nice in autumn

pack up guys we're going to spain....yay...wait isn't spain to the west...no actually we're going to russia...what tha fuck, that's the last time I sign up for anything...and it turns out it was for many.

Giving “backpacking” a new meaning

Right. The other thing he knew was how to win a battle - but Russia didn't want a battle. He should have accepted that and not pushed into Russia to try to get one. I would have let Russia do whatever it wanted. Europe was his at that point.

@@Dayvit78 He just lost his nerve somehow, and did everything wrong. He had plenty of time to withdraw, and solidify his supply lines over the winter. On the positive side should anything else have happened none of us would exist.

In hindsight is easy to point out the failures of the campaign but to assume that Napoleon ignored or didn't know that his army would not be as supplied as it had been on Germany is wrong. Even though the Grand Armée survived and owned a great deal of its speed to the soldiers mostly foraging their food Napoleon knew that the same wouldn't happen on Poland and Russia where the villages were very poor and the roads' condition bad at its best. So he arranged for a enormous supply system of wagons to carry the food and water to the frontline units..the problem was that the system itself would not work properly on the bad roads with the oxen often dying and being eaten by the desperate soldiers. Napoleon knew that logistics would be a big problem..he just didn't foresee that his idea would not work.

He relied tooheavily on speed and aggression, meaning his supply line became overstretched in russia. Spain was a bit of a failure too though

@@Psychol-Snooper :) Very true. The tiniest ripple difference and different people meet and marry - meaning different babies - meaning no us lol.

Not all soldiers were French. He stole men and boys from Flanders

@@catholicracialist776 yea there were also loads of Polish, Dutch, Neapolitan, Saxon and Bavarian soldiers.

And the other part everyone forgets is that Napoleon crossed Berezina back even before winter.

@@catholicracialist776 it was France during this time.

@@walideg5304 WRONG. It was all occupied territory, you clown

When did his diary reemerge?

@@smackskurd I disagree. People where just the same and you'd have the same reaction if you had to go through something so brutal.

@@smackskurd I actually agree that compared to everyday people back then were far more resilient but I guess that's the same as third world poverty today. We haven't changed physically apart from getting fatter.

@@smackskurd I do agree with that. I do think industrialisation and agriculture was a mistake and that we probably would be better off as a species as hunter gatherers. However and this is a big thing, we would sacrifice so much of what we have achieved medically speaking and humanitarian wise. In a hunter gatherer society you could die from an infected cut and a simple broken leg could cripple you for life. Child mortality would've been terrible I imagine, and warfare over resources was quite commonplace. Our natural instinct is to explore, conquer and procreate.

@@smackskurd judging by the way it seems to go right now that day aint to far of, could just be a tad unvoluntarily.

Haunting stuff...🙃. Definition of dark.

He also wrote about the Qing, one of the most guilty of that mixture of idealism and absolutism; "One need not be obsessed with the merits of the Chinese to recognise that their empire is the best that the world has ever seen."

Oh wow so much morals, Voltaire

@@shinybreloom4027 the more people qoute Voltaire to me the less smart he comes off as Know any quotes of his that are really wise? -from guy who has never read his works

I don't recall reading this before, but my god did Voltaire sum it up beautifully here. Deep down I want to believe that there were good conquerors throughout history. A general like the great Epaminondas of Thebes who freed Greece from Sparta's hegemony and freed their slaves. He lived poorer than his poorest soldier. I want to believe that there were selfless "conquerors" like Epaminondas. He was the exception and not the rule though.

@@ianlilley2577 But that a camel-merchant should stir up insurrection in his village; that in league with some miserable followers he persuades them that he talks with the angel Gabriel; that he boasts of having been carried to heaven, where he received in part this unintelligible book, each page of which makes common sense shudder; that, to pay homage to this book, he delivers his country to iron and flame; that he cuts the throats of fathers and kidnaps daughters; that he gives to the defeated the choice of his religion or death: this is assuredly nothing any man can excuse, at least if he was not born a Turk, or if superstition has not extinguished all natural light in him. (Voltaire)

At least they died in a fancy uniform 🤔

Emperor’s Concern for his Soldiers: 0%

@@C0wb0yBebop Actually they had to pillage and take the towns supplies because wagons would slow the army down

Can you fight if you can’t drip 💧

Cannon : 9999%

It's also amazing to see the treacherous existence humans can survive through.

If it don't kill ya, it makes you stronger.

They reckon only less than 50,000 dragged them selves back . Basically wiped out all Battle experience he had in his troop up to that year . One year of a very hot summer killed quite a lot marching there , but a ferocious -20 cold winter hit that year too . 500,000 troops from various countries supplied from all over Europe

If you read this and Clausewitz's "Der russische Feldzug von 1812" you get qutie a view on both sides of the coin.

Meh. 200 years from now, one would want to read eyewitness accounts from the peasants about the Great Biden Riot that involved millions of lives than some propaganda praises for Emperor Biden by couple of SJWs or Antifas.

@@shogunfox7141 Perhaps but im not sure how this relates to the Diaries of 3 soldiers in the Napoleonic Wars

You got your wish kzfaq.info/get/bejne/o8qqnrlm0suwiWQ.html

You sound as if you have first hand experience with it too. I hope you are doing well!

Where did you serve Cody ?

Yes in deed.

Afghanistan. 2010-2011. My brother served in Iraq 2004-2005 and again in 2008-2009. We talk quite a bit about the similarities and differences between the two. Something that really resonates with both of us are the sounds and smells. Heck even certain days when the sun hits just right and puts that hue of light on everything. Jakob could really set the scene with his writing. Im grateful that he took time to pen the words, and grateful for this channel for its execution and delivery. Outstanding.

@@average-osrs-enjoyer I am, thank you! Better than I deserve lol

Neat, a history person!

As a stonemason, I'm somewhat surprised he was literate at all, though the German lands did have above average literacy

I don't know about the early 1800s, but in the times before, spelling wasn't really standardized. That is - there didn't really exist a "correct spelling". When reading different old texts every text basically has a different spelling of the same words, depending on the author.

​@@-RXB- Sort of true here, like what the author of the text writes in a mix of Swabian dialect german and high German, (going by the notes of the editor in the copy I read), but the editor notes that the example with the pyramid/pierre mieten is not a result of dialect, but a phonetical spelling. Between the dialect differences and misspellings I found you have to almost read it out aloud to be able to understand it what is being said, trying to match the sounds with modern german words.

Read it. It was a great read.

Interesting.

Indeed

@@garrgravarr Agree, must have been tough to experience the long march far away the homeland

Gotta do what u gotta do

@@onetwothreefourfive12345 yeah....,who are u though?

@@chaosdweller Is that actually relevant?

@@samolson7070 kinda.....I remember seeing that name alot a week ago

Definitely not true

@@JoeSmith-sl9bq it was invented by Frenchman Nicolas Appert in 1809 while Napoleon Bonaparte was atill emperor. Google it for 10 seconds and you will see.

@@lordot8665 that was years before the Russian invasion though

@@Steve-in1sb he never set a specific date

Lord Ott did not say that preserving food was instigated by Napoleon specifically for the Russia campaign: he said that Napoleon offered a reward for figuring the problem out. Please don't attack people for what wasn't said.

Misplaced faith. Anyone who believes in a god in the 21st century is deluded at the very least.

@@phoarey Why would it be unreasonable to believe in God? How do you know that God doesn't exist?

@@DreDredel3 Because he lived a well wealthy life, so God doesn't affect his riches, i know many man like that and they are all the same, extremely harsh with others and lack emotions.

@@hbtm2951 As a soldier "lacking emotions" is a way to survive in a harsh reality.

@@DreDredel3 Talking about Mr Vegetari-I mean, Mr Atheist, he is not in war i supose. I have close people that served, they just doesn't breakdown and where i'm from, things like this is quite common, yet people know how bad it is, they just don't show it to make others weak, but someone who lived a soft life has no place in having no emotions, the way i see it, not set in stone tho.

Who said Notre Dame was an 'accident' while flames were still burning Keep drinking that MSM propaganda koolaid ;-D

@@kensin7244 Yes, unbelievable that people lap up such blatant misdirection from corporate media institutions.

an interesting point i’ve heard is that the “self” in our culture is a relatively recent invention. people didn’t tend to think of themselves as individuals as much during the past, but rather as a piece of a larger collective due to profound community ties.

@@RwandaBob that's an extremely interesting point now that I think about it. Individualism has really become a popular viewpoint in recent years

my wife calls individualism Ego. the idea of we are above nature - like the rainbow and global warming are ideologies that puts humans hostile and above nature, which is absurd. Not only above nature but also without the humility of something greater than you, like God. @@tommyp.7108

@@tommyp.7108 No, individualism is not that. Individualism was really able to spread in the West when the Church banned marriages between cousins. It is from there that the individual is no longer considered a member of a clan. This is individualism, the fact of not being, first of all, a member of a group, of a clan. Non-individualist cultures today? India of course, with its very strong caste system. But also, the whole Middle East, China.

Not trying to belittle you, but they were in the middle of war; even Aristotle wouldn’t have time to ponder philosophy lmao

Too bad he didnt, maybe it would work like ring for Sauron

@arlenaddison Why lie? First, there is no such thing as a "nazi". They were, in fact, National Socialist. Second, Adolf Hitler never wanted war. Third, Adolf Hitler highly respected his blood Volke within Britain. They were all Germanic/Nordic in lineage. Fourth, poor comparison between National Socialist Germany and Despotic self-appointed monarch Napoleon Bonaparte.

Midwit take

But then the Battle of Stalingrad came to Russia, on top of the communist dictatorship...

You lack imagination and haven’t been paying attention; it will happen again.

@@Dadecorban the ammunition used was even more devastating to humans.

@@Dadecorban If Western Europe embraces Islam and Eastern Europe holds strong to Christianity there's opportunity for propaganda to cause tension.

@@dwandersgaming the way it’s going I’m surprised that Arabic is not the dominant tongue in some major European cities

Don't forget about the army Napoleon lost in Spain as well, 300,000 French soldiers who never made it back to France in the disasterous Peninsular War. And that army he raised after Russia, Napoleon lost as well in the Leipzig campaign. I mostly agree with you, Napoleon was NOT a military genius. But I actually think he wasn't even a tactical genius. Let me explain why: Early 19th Century France had one of the most powerful, overwhelming forces in military history. In context, way more powerful than any army it was facing. The French army, reinforced and armed due to Revolution, and swelled through mass conscription, was the most powerful army in the world....by far. The best trained, the most guns, the most horses, the best funded, polished officers and the most men of any army in Europe. This is the powerful army that Napoleon inherited through usurpation of power. This is the army that won Napoleon so many victories early on. Many times, this overwhelming army hid Napoleon's flaws and miscalculations. For example, at Marengo Napoleon had lost the battle because of his reckless miscalculations but French reinforcements literally came out of nowhere to his rescue and won the battle for him (Of course Napoleon was quick to take the credit, as the manipulator he was). Some of Napoleon's most famous victories Ulm, Eylau, Friedland, Wagram, Borodino were just uncreative, non-tactical slugfest bloodbaths where he won the battle just with such an overwhelming force. Heck at Borodino, Napoleon said "just get on with it" and then watched the bloodbath literally with his feet up like someone inactively watching tv in their living room....it was the bloodiest battle in European history until that time, and Le Grand Amree won without him that day. When 10,000 calvary horsemen charged at Eylau, that is not a testament to Napoleon, but a testament to the PROWESS of the French military at the time. So many time Napoleon would send troops on sacrificial frontal assaults or sacrificial calvary charges, knowing they would be obliterated, but it would give him a tactical advantage in battle by doing so. Why could he sacrifice his own troops so callously?...because of his numerical advantage, a luxury his opponents did not have, even when they united against Napoleon. If you look at the French casualty rates in battle, they were EXTREMELY high (Eylau, Wagram, Borodino), even when they won the battle. But Napoleon would then just call up more and more young conscripts to replace the dead because he could with France's vast population, that's why he sacrificed so many of his own troops. Austerlitz was probably the one exception where Napoleon took a gamble and it worked decisively in a victorious campaign. But by the end of bloodbaths like Eylau, most of the victors of Austerlitz were dead. Every year the French army got worse under Napoleon, not better. By the time Napoleon was done, the once powerful French army was in shambles. Plus Napoleon really showed a poor performance when his army was not as strong, as in the Leipzig campaign and 1814 France campaign. Campaigns in which Napoleon decisively and swiftly lost, despite how biased historians attempt to portray it, (like falsely claiming that the Six Day Campaign was brilliant, when in fact Napoleon gained nothing in said campaign, but lost time and recourses as he left Paris exposed to capture). Napoleon was easily beaten in less time than expected and Paris was easily captured, it was as clear of checkmate in war as ever. The People of France could not even put up any resistance to the invaders as Napoleon's 15-year overuse of conscription had left the country without fighting men. Furthermore, Napoleon did not even have the most revolutionary, important or effective military tactics of the Napoleonic Wars. That would go to the Spanish Guerrillas, whose methods changed warfare forever. Today, nobody fights like Napoleon, it is an outdated, costly and ridiculous strategy fighting in lines. In fact, it was outdated strategy by the U.S. Civil War, over 150 years ago. But today, all across the world and in the 20th and 21st century, people still use Spanish guerrilla tactics in wars and conflicts. Napoleon had no idea how to fight a guerrilla army, a huge reason why he lost in the end, he could not adapt. Today Napoleon's tactics are obsolete, but Guerrilla tactics endure. Napoleon was a reckless, wasteful, incompetent, inflexible general, with terrible ideas that withered away his numerical advantage in infantry, calvary and artillery. Only a terrible general can waste it all away in defeat and disgrace.

@@RidleyScottOwnsFailedDictators Good summary in detail! His use of artillery was inspired at times but otherwise I completely agree. He was not a military genius in any way I can find. He destroyed several armies through foolish or heartless decisions.

Exactly.

Maybe he only realised it in his Russian campaign

That's the point of Napoleons grand armed Its supposed to take the villages they come across and then the invasion of Russia the supply lines were thined and the army had to pause each time but cossacks kept disrupting or stealing the supplies thus many were not able to get food and Russia does the scorch earth tactics and thus making the grand armed a lumbering slow beast And besides its pretty common for literally every army in this era and before Unlike today we have technology to help us but back then men march hundreds of miles to fight a battle and March more to fight Truly balls of steel of those men

I'm imagining Napoleon trying to come up with an answer like Skinner in the "steamed hams" bit. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/atCIeNh6rb-dmZc.html

because the roads were so bad, horses kept dying and the russians kept burning their fields so they could never get enough food in russia

Campaigns such as this do not go to the ambitions of one man. There has to be much consensus from men we do not see or history does not tell. Do you think Hitler , by himself, could decide to invade Russia and all fell in line because of his whim? To invade Russia was not rational.

Dan Anderson Your wrong Hitler did indeed decide to invade Russia his generals strongly advised him against it...but he did it anyway repeating Napoleons mistake.

@@boomerhgt I am not wrong by any stretch. Don't be so naive. They all laid down for Hitler's word even though it meant the destruction of one's own nation and family? Just to take on Russia alone was not rational. Anyone who could merely sit down and crunch the numbers would know that-man power, manufacturing, geographical location, supply lines, troop morale...it is simply impossible to take down Russia in a quick manner which was what was needed to be done. And then you also have to worry about the US and Great Britian? His generals should have ended his life right then and there!

@@boomerhgt Napoleon’s and Hitler circumstances were completely different.

@@leonardodavid2842 It's fair to compare them. To compare is not to equate. Too many people mesh the two concepts together. Egomaniacs looking to expand. Delusional in defeat. Even Jeff Davis was the same.

You mean 80 years ago in Stalingrad and Leningrad...

@@EroticOnion23 yeah i simply dont know that much about Napoleon era and i was surprised

Napoleon was Hitler's idol and both their fates were sealed in the endless harsh countryside of Russia.

@@mattbarbarich3295 Don't be stupid, please and learn something, especially the political views in the spectrum,

@@mattbarbarich3295 you are a tankie

Remember, they thought Moscow would be the end of it. "It'll be a hard campaign and you'll all hate it, and some may starve, but once we take their capital we will have peace," was the mentality. Then the Tsar wouldn't make peace.

Alexander the gay

Hitler

@Michael Ardenté triggered

“I expect the best and I give the best. Here's the beer. Here's the entertainment. Now have fun. That's an order!” Lieutenant Jean Rasczak.

Yeah, the History Channel really went down hill. Not saying it’s aliens, but..

I'd gladly go back for the days when it was the WW2 channel. Even their later "history" specials got real dumb.

@@dr.lyleevans6915 Under-rated comment.

it's an extremely confusing time in history...especially in trying to figure out who was in charge of France and what the goals were. Im reading a bio of Nap. and it is difficult to understand what he was trying to do.

@@joejones9520 It is not that confusing, France was a lost country scarred by Revolution, and they put their faith in the wrong man, Napoleon. Napoleon was just trying to help Napoleon and his own. Napoleon's intention was not help any other country, it was to subjugate countries through military force, that is why he was a despot tyrant. Napoleon would send his troops to "live off the land." That means pillage the food, loot the goods, seize people's homes and lands to quarter soldiers, impose heavy taxes, murder anyone who protests. Even pillage property that was of no military value. Napoleon was a self-serving dictator, who did not care for the countries he occupied, or the soldiers who did it for him, not an enlightened ruler. Napoleon's egotistical nature consumed almost every decision he made is nothing short of criminal. His poor strategic and diplomatic abilities ended up costing the lives of countless young French men who he threw to the meat grinder with false notions of a progressive France or the cultivation of national movements in places like Poland, Germany, or Italy. His goal of subjugation gives him no reconciliation for the awful decisions he made as a despotic ruler. Even after exhausting the French people and his allies in terms of manpower and resources he still dragged them along, regardless of their willingness. Even with such clear notions of defeat, Napoleon still found it necessary to personally save face by continuing the war to a bitter and devastating end. His notions of conditions of victory were simply delusional. Napoleon’s grandiose and unrealistic plans for making France the dominant force in Europe simply lead the nation to ruin l.

@@joejones9520 Agreed. Seems like he was just collecting the levers of power. So much like Julius Caesar.

@Gwyn and Gold hurtful comments are useless. The way reality is that every infinite of a second we prove the word of God. We age and every day our cells die then rejuvenate. You'll be 80 years old one day and say to yourself I have proven the word of God. The Napoleonic wars (Napolean Code) in consequence gave the Calvin teaching of separation of church and state. Isn't it interesting Napoleon capitulated Rome or the Vatican? Isn't interesting the church or the body of Christ is being torn apart by apostisy? Isn't interesting the doctrin es of men are replacing the doctrines of Jesus? Isn't interesting the Jews are proud and blind then have followed the doctrines of men or the Talmud instead of what is true? Isn't it interesting you have heard of the Gospel and Jesus? Isn't it interesting you worship vain things than truth? Isn't it interesting I replaced my lifestyle for Jesus recently? Isn't it interesting there is so many people who think are Christian but are in reality hypocrites? Isn't it interesting your own decision will lead you to Hades and knowingly you could of avoided hell itself by accepting Jesus Christ in your heart? Isn't it interesting how the world, space, and time will end but the word of God will be fulfilled?

@Elivinture actually psychologists are barely figuring it out. You just don't understand. You'll probably get stuck with false truths or lesser truths instead of the ones God offers. All I'm saying get away from mystery schools, the occult, Kabbalah, gnostics, sacred geometry*, numerology*, etc. These truths tend to be demonic or demonic truths since Jesus gave us their past; demons used to be angels and they share their memories or the truths they hold when they used to be holy for God. Do not follow the Muhammad or Islam religion. The Islam prophet wrote from abhorrent sources when he was intending to be inspired from the Holy Bible. The Jews are correct BUT Jesus fulfilled the law. Talmud was created after 70 AD or basically after Jesus Christ. Talmud is meant to decieve the minds and conciousness of Jews so they do not conclude Jesus Christ is their actual messiah. You think you know but it's yikes. You probably do not know of the Knights Templars history. Napoleonic Code took a lesson from John Calvin which I tend to disagree with Calvin. You're probably those edgy dudes that just wonders the internet for memes, atheism, more memes, edge, the predictable list goes on and on. Just walk with Christ because this world were in right now is ruled by the Accuser, Deciever, and other titles for the Devil. Millions of mother's abort their babies. Millions of people commit suicide. The list is abhorrent. You wonder why is there evil? You probably ask yourself "If I were God I would of destroyed humanity a long time ago" I ask these questions myself and if I were God I would destroyed humanity a long time ago but you don't get it. God is true love we people yet are to understand. God is not human! I recommend you not dying and be judged by God, knowing Jesus or the Gospels, you just cannot be in that place.

@Elivinture then explain why do we have conciousness? Explain why the mind exists? You can't. Science used to side with religion which was metaphysics. Science was meant to unravel God but we're extremely far from him. Why do you think architecture from the past is amazing; metaphysics. We used to serve Gods and Goddesses. You probably don't know Greek myths and how messed up their Gods are. The only God we know that holds weight is the God from Abraham, Issac, and Jacob. Their God predicts the future, past, present. We know there is some sort of time mechanism here or at least space is not what we think it is but God chills in eternity. You will get old and die someday proving the word of God. People are dust and shadows. Death is so easy to grasp. Good luck with psychology since it boasts smaller and lesser things than God.

Making good choices! Thanks Lane!

Which that pronunciation of corp never made sense, considering it comes from corpus, which does pronounce P and S.

@@NecromancyForKids French is written as it was said centuries ago, not as it is said today unfortunately. It is an orthographic nightmare.

@@NecromancyForKids Ahh, I had flashbacks to my High School times. And remembered why I absolutely hated french language. You hate it more after studying latin. They truly pronounce the words like drunktards.

Man is okay. It's the ones at the top who push war. Many German soldiers in WW2 starting walking back home. Screw this! Sgt York in WW1 captured how many Germans? Probably because they had enough of the meaningless slaughter.

and all for nothing, everything has always been for nothing, no one even remembers most battles and wars..

500 000 dead , prisoners,deserters

Man is stupid...being lied for centuries. This century as well. We are being lied left and right and for what...in 30 years gonna get replaced by androids and just gonna get killed by a plague. Just an example. :-D

and biden and the democrats are bloodthirsty as napolean was. We will go to war with russia soon. the left which worships satan hates that russia got away from the bolsheviks and the trotsky'ites and antichristian stuff and has become pro christian and very pro freedom. Russia has always been a target and never defeated. So a fool goes there to die in the harsh conditions and mega million man force russia has. But history repeats itself so get ready another fools invasion will happen......and fail.

I remember when my father who was a logistics officer, told me that, I did not understood exactly what he meant, now as I read more, I understand exactly what he meant.

i'm partway through, and I expected a lot more about the plague of biting insects they must've had to endure.

read about the battle of berezina ! the dutch pontonniers (bridge builder ) were heroics

But you're Japanese

@@Lachausis I'm a French living in Taiwan

@@baihongliang oh, cool. Look where the life has taken you as opposed to your ancestor. Vive Le France

@@Lachausis Yeah, family histories, just like History with a capital H, are full of surprises!

A classic

My Manly Man-Emperor of Mankind isn't just wise, he is also kawaii!!!

@@denisc4312 You came from backdoor that's cheating. That doesn't count.

@@denisc4312 Russia wasn’t even unified when they invaded

Said the Mongols

He looked concerned at the situation, just read about his staff reports, but he couldn't stand alongside a common soldier and told him/her, God, how we are going to make it? we are out of supplies and the first corps was defeated at Vyazma. you should understand who a leader must try always to be in a good mood, so there would be no panic, neither plumeted morals

Is this book in English? Who sells it?

@@forestman2382 it's in Engish by Josef Holub and they have it on Amazon, ebay, and the google play store if you prefer digital books.