The most fantastical period of European history is rooted in the events surrounding one man, one Caesar of his age embodying both Julius and Augustus as a general and political operator respectively.
He moulded Europe to his will for better or for worse often times for worse fueled by his ambitious and precise tactics, his “living off the land” logistical strategies, his consolidation of legislature in his Napoleonic code, his theatrics in war and in coup, his crowning himself Emperor without any attempt to legitimize his power before God, his countless beatings of Central-European foes, his ambitious continental system to lift the continent from the mercantile yoke of Britain, his ill-fated invasion of Russia, and his return that almost secured his hold of Europe and therefore the world just narrowly bested by Wellington.
What followed his defeat as the greatest victory of the new order instituted by Hugo Grotius in the Ius Publicum Europeuam: the Congress of Vienna.
Instead of dismantling France, his possessions were reorganized with France retaining its pre-Napoleonic Wars.
The ramifications of his life echo perpetually into and beyond our lives today.
Podden och tillhörande omslagsbild på den här sidan tillhör Bloodandrain. Innehållet i podden är skapat av Bloodandrain och inte av, eller tillsammans med, Poddtoppen.
