Napoleon's Death
Warfare
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Napoleon's Fate Is Sealed
In 1813, he gets out with 50,000 men. That's 90% casualty rates between killed, wounded, taken prisoner. And in the process, that kind of breaks the back of French military might. He is able to raise a new army and then take that force into Germany. It was the largest battle that was caught up until the First World War. The same kind of campaign really we saw right back at the start of his career in 1790s Italy.
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