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Napoleon Part 2: The Italian Job

Real Dictators

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Napoleon and the Alpine Crossing

Napoleon has a team of artists follow him everywhere, the war photographers of their day. He is depicted as resplendent on a bucking white charger, billowing, hair flowing. But he had crossed the alps several days after his army had made crossing,. So the army that you see in the background was not, in fact, there at the time. And there was bonaparte on a mule, not this dramatic rearing horse. Napoleon demands austria surrender many of its italian holdings and give up southern netherlands along with further territory on rhine.

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