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Napoleon Part 2: The Italian Job

Real Dictators

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Napoleon's War on the Front Line

Napoleon has no time for out dated codes of honor. An army marches on its stomach, as he puts it in their case, a stomach filled by foraging on the hoof. In a lightning campaign of just two weeks, he wins six battles and takes thousands of prisoners. Within three weeks, victor amedeus, the third king of sardinia, signs an armistice and abandons the coalition altogether. Napoleon meanwhile, plunders the sardinian king's coffers to pay his army.

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