Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes
If it had not been for the English I should have been emperor of the East, but wherever there is water to float a ship we are sure to find them in our way.
O'Meara, Barry Edward. Napoleon in Exile: Or, A Voice from St. Helena. Vol. 1, W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 1822, p. 209.
This quotation is a good illustration of a practice that existed in the age of Empire where two or more large powers would agree among themselves as to which one of them had the right to seize a smaller power, not part of the compact.
They were each children of kings who were held as hostages by Attila. Living at his court, they learned much of the Huns under Attila. The couple fell in love and escaped to be rare eyewitnesses to Attila and his kingdom.
Germany had world power aspirations before Adolf Hitler.
The Byzantine emissary had pointed out that Mehmed’s predecessors had signed a treaty agreeing to “consult” with Constantinople before building any fortified structure in the area surrounding Constantinople. Mehmed was only 19 years old at this time. His intention f building a fort was to have a platform from which to attack and capture Constantinople itself which he did 2 years later. Earlier, the Eastern Roman Empire was much stronger and the Ottoman sultans were more cautious in dealing with them. However, the various Christian factions were all feuding with each other, and Mehmed II, despite his youth, was much better organized and was a better leader than his predecessors.
The French leader was one of the first to warn against the Fascism that Mussolini brought to Italy. Although most of the French leadership was opposed to Fascism when it came to fighting Fascism, the French later proved feeble, and many became collaborators and adopted the Nazi puppet state of Vichy France.
Napoléon Bonaparte was a French military and political leader of Corsican descent. He 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 large empire that ruled over continental Europe before its final collapse in 1815. One of the greatest commanders in history, his wars and campaigns are studied at military schools worldwide. He remains one of the most celebrated and controversial political figures in human history.
