The Napoleonic Wars

Victor Navarrette: Napoleon is the in the French mind, the last guy who won. And so he's idolized. He was kind of a ego Chavez type left wing dictator. With a no Napoleonic law code and the meritocracy that he introduced to the military that he was the embodiment of the revolutionary. The one thing very quickly remember is when you go into the hall of mirrors at Versailles,. The victories kind of end, don't they? with light on the eve of the Russian invasion. They lost their country in eight weeks in 1940. I know that the division LaClaire and Tossackney, all those great French generals at Patton and others