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
Every soldier carries a marshall's baton in his pack.
Soldiers, forty centuries are looking down upon you from these pyramids.
Revolutions are good times for soldiers of talent and courage.
An Emperor confides in national soldiers, not in mercenaries.
Every French soldier carriers a marshal's baton in his knapsack.
Soldiers! Forty centuries behold you!
I am a soldier and accustomed to risking my life every day. I am full of the fire of youth; I cannot act with the restraint of an accomplished diplomat.
The worse the man the better the soldier. If soldiers be not corrupt they ought to be made so.
Give me enough ribbons to place on the tunics of my soldiers and I can conquer the world.
The most desirable quality in a soldier is constancy in the support of fatigue; valor is only secondary.
Which is heavier: a soldier's pack or a slave's chains?
The unwilling soldier will do anything to fight for a useless fabric piece of ribbon.
An army travels on its stomach. Soup makes the soldier.
All generals, officers, and soldiers who capitulate in battle to save their own lives should be decimated.