Quotes About Napoleon

Thirteen very unhappy officers filed into Villeneuve's cabin and sat around the table.

Napoleon decided to wait. Spring 1805 was the time.

Napoleon was now one of the crowned heads of Europe.

Napoleon had 60,000 troops in Italy, scattered in different locations.

This was what Napoleon had never understood

In fact the destination was Boulogne, where Napoleon would be waiting for them from 10 June onwards

Sortez sans combat,' came Napoleon's reply.

Napoleon dictated the letter on 2 January 1805.

But Napoleon saw everything in military terms.

Once the British were defeated, there would be peace again – on Napoleon's terms.

Not only that, but Napoleon had called him 'brother'. They were far from being brothers,

With hindsight, Napoleon might have done better to build steam ships

Plenty of people in England thought Napoleon was doing precisely that.

Nobody worked harder than Napoleon himself. Fifteen hours a day was quite normal for him.

He loves to tell that old story of the don who was granted an interview with Napoleon. "No doubt a remarkable fellow," said the don afterwards, "but anyone can see he's not a Cambridge man.

Napoleon the greatest of the conquerors, is a sufficient proof that great men of action are criminals, and, therefore not geniuses. One can understand him by thinking of the tremendous intensity with which he tried to escape from himself.

Mike nodded. A sombre nod. The nod Napoleon might have given if somebody had met him in 1812 and said, "So, you're back from Moscow, eh?

I gathered that Napoleon's feat in crossing the Alps paled in comparison with the Romans', who had been up and down these mountain passes more often than I have been up and down the back stairs at home. At first I found that a comforting thought, but as we ascended into the heights, my respect for the Romans increased. Imagine marching through such terrain wearing sandals.

Haiti was founderd by a righteous revolution in 1804 and became the first black republic. It was the first country to break the chains of slavery, the first to force Emperor Napoleon to retreat, and the only to aid Simón Bolívar in his struggle to liberate the indigenous people and slaves of Latin America from their colonial oppressors.