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
I have made all the calculations; fate will do the rest.
Leave the Artillerymen alone, they are an obstinate lot...
Six hours' sleep for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool,
Arabia was idolatrous when, six centuries after Jesus, Muhammad introduced the worship of the God of Abraham, of Ishmael, of Moses, and Jesus. The Ariyans and some other sects had disturbed the tranquility of the east by agitating the question of the nature of the Father, the son, and the Holy Ghost. Muhammad declared that there was none but one God who had no father, no son and that the trinity imported the idea of idolatry...
You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.
There is only one thing in this world, and that is to keep acquiring money and more money, power and more power. All the rest is meaningless.
Read over and over again the campaigns of Alexander, Hannibal, Caesar, Gustavus, Turenne, Eugene and Frederic. ... This is the only way to become a great general and master the secrets of the art of war.
If you build an army of 100 lions and their leader is a dog, in any fight, the lions will die like a dog. But if you build an army of 100 dogs and their leader is a lion, all dogs will fight as a lion
Victory is not always winning the battle...but rising every time you fall.
Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.
It follows that any commander in chief who undertakes to carry out a plan which he considers defective is at fault; he must put forth his reasons, insist on the plan being changed, and finally tender his resignation rather than be the instrument of h
The reason most people fail instead of succeed is they trade what they want most for what they want at the moment.
The World is not ruined by the wickedness of the wicked, but by the weakness of the good.
International incidents should not govern foreign policy, but foreign policy, incidents