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23 May 2022, 10:56 am
Mens Rea and Military Objectives The environment has often been the subject of wartime military attack, be it the scorched earth policy of the Napoleonic Wars to the use of “Agent Orange” during the Vietnam War. [read post]
21 Apr 2022, 7:30 am
For the Balkinization symposium on Daniel Carpenter, Democracy by Petition: Popular Politics in Transformation, 1790–1870 (Harvard University Press, 2021).Daniel Carpenter[1] Is there anything like the petition of lore left in our republic? [read post]
20 Apr 2022, 7:30 am
For the Balkinization symposium on Daniel Carpenter, Democracy by Petition: Popular Politics in Transformation, 1790–1870 (Harvard University Press, 2021). [read post]
1 Apr 2022, 9:17 am
Tolstoy noted a similar moment at Borodinó, two centuries ago, when the “moral force” of Napoleon’s army was exhausted outside Moscow—a victory that “convinced the enemy of the moral superiority of his opponent and of his own impotence. [read post]
24 Mar 2022, 6:01 am
A review of Noah Feldman, “The Broken Constitution: Lincoln, Slavery, and the Refounding of America” (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021). *** “It only has been radicals who have changed this country. [read post]
21 Mar 2022, 1:01 am
The Napoleon Series website, dedicated to the promotion of scholarly exploration of the Napoleonic Age, points out: Under the ancien regime more than 400 codes of laws were in place in various parts of France, with common law predominating in the north and Roman law in the south. [read post]
17 Mar 2022, 12:59 pm
Painting initially followed revolutionary suggestions, then adapted to the magniloquent exaltation of Napoleon's exploits and the monarchies during the Restoration period, before becoming a denunciation of social injustice in satirical caricatures in tandem with the rise of Impressionism and Realism. [read post]
17 Mar 2022, 12:56 pm
Painting initially followed revolutionary suggestions, then adapted to the magniloquent exaltation of Napoleon's exploits and the monarchies during the Restoration period, before becoming a denunciation of social injustice in satirical caricatures in tandem with the rise of Impressionism and Realism. [read post]
1 Mar 2022, 10:00 pm
How about the Napoleonic Complex? [read post]
1 Mar 2022, 11:45 am
It was that reality that emboldened Napoleon Bonaparte in his wars of world domination. [read post]
27 Feb 2022, 8:26 am
Maureen Dowd: "As for Putin’s Napoleonic megalomania, perhaps the Russia expert Nina Khrushcheva summed him up best in a Vanity Fair podcast: He’s a small man of five-six saying he’s five-seven.'"3. [read post]
25 Feb 2022, 9:07 am
There was a long peace among great powers in Europe following the Napoleonic Wars in the early 19th century, as described in this book-length response to Steven Pinker’s well-known “The Better Angels of Our Nature” (which also describes 1945 as a key turning point marking the decline of interstate war). [read post]
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24 Feb 2022, 5:35 pm
You need to be like Napoleon and charge full steam ahead, and keep the defense on their toes in order to defeat them. [read post]
4 Feb 2022, 10:01 am
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3 Jan 2022, 2:30 am
One of Karl Marx’s most famous quotes comes from The 18th Brumaire of Louis Napoleon, in which the father of modern socialism & failed game show contestant wrote that historical entities appear twice, “first as tragedy, then as farce. [read post]
18 Dec 2021, 8:53 am
Talleyrand made the statement above to Napoleon Bonaparte to reproach Napoleon for his treachery in tricking King Charles IV and Queen Marie Luisa, the Bourbon monarchs of Spain, to abdicate their thrones in favor of Napoleon’s brother Joseph. [read post]
7 Dec 2021, 4:15 am
The team last rebranded in 1915, when it left behind its former name, the “Naps” (short for “Napoleons”) in favor of the “Indians. [read post]
7 Dec 2021, 4:15 am
The team last rebranded in 1915, when it left behind its former name, the “Naps” (short for “Napoleons”) in favor of the “Indians. [read post]
13 Nov 2021, 1:49 pm
(Indeed, in 1808, when Goethe met Napoleon in Erfurt, Napoleon would tell Goethe that he had read Werther seven times). [read post]
10 Nov 2021, 11:07 am
It bears remembering that, in cases where two oppositional forces battle themselves to death or stalemate, invariably a third force will sweep them both to the side--a lesson that both Napoleon and Lenin learned well. [read post]
