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Purple History's avatar

He had another near miss a few months earlier, when Austrians bungled into his headquarters and he supposedly had to jump over fences barefoot😅

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Ben L.'s avatar

It's exciting to read a time when The French kicked ass instead of bowing to moose limb filth two centuries later.

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BOCN's avatar

Was Napoleon 'great' in your opinion? I recall listening to this topic debated on the Intelligence Squared podcast a couple of years ago. Very interesting. It's still on YouTube if you're interested.

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