Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/01/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]|It was very much Europe's battle too - Prussians, Austrians, Russians the British and many other nations.| |Napoleon's army could easily have defeated Wellington and Bl?cher at Waterloo, but politics played a role| |and the French made an orderly retreat to Paris. Napoleon was in the meantime so unpopular in France that| |he was forced (by the French) to abdicate in 1815.| |In spite of Bonaparte's abdication, sporadic skirmishes continued on the eastern borders of France and around| |Paris until the cease-fire treaty was signed on the 4th of July.| |Napoleon, on the run from the French, surrendered himself to the British naval forces in Rochefort and expected to be able to take refuge - and, it is said, grow roses - in the south of England.| |He must have been quite surprised that they shipped him off to St Helena without even allowing him to land in England.| |Napoleon may not have succeeded in conquering Europe, but he did leave a legacy that put the world on the right track towards civil rights and helped many countries in their own battles for independence and freedom.| |Douglas| On 05.01.2010 15:59, Frank Dernie wrote: > The British royal family has German roots. > > On 5 Jan, 2010, at 14:11, slobodan Dimitrov wrote: > > >> Come to think of it, the same happened in Europe. Britain's last battle >> with Napoleon was to eradicate his gene pool within the Continental >> nobility with theirs, through Victoria. >> S.d. >> >> >> On Jan 5, 2010, at 5:58 AM, Spencer Cheng wrote: >> >> >>> The Chinese solved the problem ultimately by absorbing the invaders >>> (Mongols, Manchus) into it's gene pool rather than relying on the very >>> expensive Great Wall. Much more effective than any wall when one has >>> time and a very large populace. >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >