Mappa del New York Times pubblicata nel 1940 che mette a confronto il territorio conquistato da Napoleone e Hitler
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di Jezzaq94
Mappa del New York Times pubblicata nel 1940 che mette a confronto il territorio conquistato da Napoleone e Hitler
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di Jezzaq94
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Great Britain: You’re welcome
As always, Portugal is never conquered.
Not even Spain’s betrayal when they helped the French invade us, only to be invaded by the French themselves later could change that.
France invaded us three times, and three times it was defeated.
Napoleon was a great general probably one of the greatest of all time but his greatest defeat wasn’t Russia. It was Iberia.
We’re not an easy people to conquer. Guerrilla warfare runs in our blood.
I don’t know about other areas, but in Spain Napoleon’s map is quite inaccurate.
In 1812, the Spanish War of Independence had been going on for years and there were several regions where they had no control
Norway was involuntarily involved, due to being under Danish rule. Denmark supported Napoleon. As a consequence, after the war, Denmark was forced to hand Norway over to Sweden
Honestly I think such a map is a very Anglo perspective which if anything kind of “says the quiet part out loud.” That being that they don’t actually care about the system or ideology or anything, the real evil to them is unity in continental Europe, and anything which may threaten the hegemony of the British Empire or later Anglo-American hegemony.
The British didn’t care about the Jews in WW2, they cared about a continental Empire that might in any way rival the British. They did also certainly did not care that Napoleon reformed legal systems and gave people more rights than they had ever had (outside France). Nor did the conservative establishment think a powerful France would be fine because it was now a monarchy again.
Whether it’s French, Prussian or anything else, power on the continent must never concentrate and must always be shattered.
Hitler is rightly seen as a great criminal, but Napoleon who did much the same is admired and even celebrated as a hero in France.
French armies slaughtered women and children, burned churches, carried out mass executions in Portugal, even killed priests and nuns. And yet, he’s remembered as a great hero by the French.
It’s amazing what the absence of television cameras did…
If they’d existed back then, Napoleon would be remembered not as a hero, but as a monster.
May they both burn in hell
Wasn’t Vichy France under German control, in the same way as the those “Napoleonic control” states were? I know they didn’t join Axis, but were collaborating, and their policies were not that much different than German ones.
Damn, nobody dares to fuck with Portugal