Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/01/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]After Napoleon the choices came down to several horrific visions of Europe; that of Metternich, Disraeli, and Bismark. S.d. On Jan 5, 2010, at 11:04 AM, Douglas Sharp wrote: > |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 >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information Slobodan Dimitrov http://sdimitrovphoto.com/