Napoleon Part 4: The Emperor Strikes Back
Real Dictators
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Napoleon's Conquest of the Channel Coast
The Emperor's new clothes are shrugged off by the little corporal again, as he meets and greets his troops. Napoleon is thought through every aspect of the conquest, even dividing Britain into occupation zones. The idea was that there would be these republics, an Irish republic, maybe a Scottish republic,. There are English republicans knocking around, the United Britons and so on. All these underground organisations are thinking in terms of welcoming a French invasion. London would have been la de la de la tamees, the Department of the Thames - with a lot of which is rather good.
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