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Part One: Napoleon III: The Worst Bonaparte

Behind the Bastards

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Napoleon Is a Good Military Commander

Napoleon's experience in Egypt is a little bit kind of like Erwin Rommel's gonna be a couple hundred years later, where he doesn't win. But everyone's very impressed with how well he does, and he kind of nearly pulls it off. So he's a war hero when he comes back to France, overthrows the government, and establishes himself as first counsel. And then he beats them all.

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