{"id":56548,"date":"2020-08-11T02:00:02","date_gmt":"2020-08-11T06:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=56548"},"modified":"2025-08-29T19:56:21","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T23:56:21","slug":"napoleons-greatest-foe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2020\/08\/11\/napoleons-greatest-foe\/","title":{"rendered":"Napoleon&#8217;s greatest foe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jdM3ID4m38U\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Lindybeige<br \/>\nPublished 18 Jan 2018<\/p>\n<p>Support me on Patreon: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/Lindybeige\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/Lindybeige<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Possibly I did too much research for this one. Trying to stay on-topic when the subject is so vast and so interesting was not easy, hence the rather long video. I didn&#8217;t mean to say quite so much about what an utter \u00a3$%&#038;*! Napoleon was, but he was so thoroughly vile that it proved impossible not to include some details about the man who won his promotion in the army by mowing down civilian protesters in the streets of Paris with grapeshot from his artillery batteries. Anyway, here are tales of bravery and virtue, as well as horrendous some of brutality, lies, and death.<\/p>\n<p>Correction: The battle against the Russian fleet is called <em>Svensksund<\/em> (Swedish sound, as in channel), not <em>Svenksund<\/em>. I missed out an S in my haste.<\/p>\n<p>Buy the music &#8211; the music played at the end of my videos is now available here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?v=jdM3ID4m38U&#038;redir_token=tV7JA-iJMNIkAc-rfnlEPQ87tLp8MTU4NzMyODI5MkAxNTg3MjQxODky&#038;event=video_description&#038;q=https%3A%2F%2Flindybeige.bandcamp.com%2Ftrack%2Fthe-mandeville-march\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/lindybeige.bandcamp.com\/track&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lindybeige: a channel of archaeology, ancient and medieval warfare, rants, swing dance, travelogues, evolution, and whatever else occurs to me to make.<\/p>\n<p>\u25bc Follow me&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Twitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Lindybeige\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/Lindybeige<\/a> I may have some drivel to contribute to the Twittersphere, plus you get notice of uploads.<\/p>\n<p>website: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.LloydianAspects.co.uk\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.LloydianAspects.co.uk<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Screenshot_2020-08-11-Napoleon\u2019s-greatest-foe.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Screenshot_2020-08-11-Napoleon\u2019s-greatest-foe-480x270.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-59495\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Screenshot_2020-08-11-Napoleon\u2019s-greatest-foe-480x270.png 480w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Screenshot_2020-08-11-Napoleon\u2019s-greatest-foe-853x480.png 853w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Screenshot_2020-08-11-Napoleon\u2019s-greatest-foe-150x84.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Screenshot_2020-08-11-Napoleon\u2019s-greatest-foe-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Screenshot_2020-08-11-Napoleon\u2019s-greatest-foe.png 930w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lindybeige Published 18 Jan 2018 Support me on Patreon: https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/Lindybeige Possibly I did too much research for this one. Trying to stay on-topic when the subject is so vast and so interesting was not easy, hence the rather long video. I didn&#8217;t mean to say quite so much about what an utter \u00a3$%&#038;*! 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