Napoleon Bonaparte
Napoleon Bonaparte
Napoléon Bonapartewas a French military and political leader who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led several successful campaigns during the Revolutionary Wars. As Napoleon I, he was Emperor of the French from 1804 until 1814, and again in 1815. Napoleon dominated European and global affairs for more than a decade while leading France against a series of coalitions in the Napoleonic Wars. He won most of these wars and the vast majority of his battles, building a...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionRoyalty
Date of Birth15 August 1769
CityAjaccio, France
CountryFrance
Nothing is so important in war as an undivided command.
The admiral needs only one science, that of navigation. The general needs all the sciences.
Speeches pass away, but acts remain.
Religions are all founded on miracles - on things we cannot understand, such as the Trinity. Jesus calls himself the Son of God, and yet is descended from David. I prefer the religion of Mahomet - it is less ridiculous than ours.
I have fought sixty battles, and I have learnt nothing which I did not know at the beginning.
Artillery is more essential to cavalry than to infantry, because cavalry has no fire for its defence, but depends on the sabre.
Between a battle lost and a battle won, the distance is immense and there stand empires.
Men of genius are meteors destined to burn themselves out in lighting up their age.
Man, not men, is the most important consideration.
The art of the police is not to see what it is useless that it should see.
When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.
In revolution there are only two sorts of men, those who cause them and those who profit by them.
Insubordination may only be the evidence of a strong mind.
Soldiers! Here is the battle you have so long desired! Henceforth victory depends on you; we have need of it.