Napoleons Mistakes and Their Consequences Today in social studies classes even at a very young age we learn about the famous ruler Napoleon Bonaparte. He is worldly known for creating a huge empire basing of off France during the late 1700s and early 1800s. Napoleons Empire was dominant, prosperous, and controlled much of Europe. However his headstrong, persistent personality to acquire more land got him out of power and his empire ruined. Lastly due to his strong and rough ruling tactics when in control of the empire, he was exiled.
Eventually, Robbespierre was executed by his own method of execution. Due to all that Napoleon had done for his country by defending it, he was elected ruler of France on the one condition he did not take the title of king. In 1796, Napoleon took charge of the Army of Italy, a position he had waned. The army, had 30,000 soldiers that were strong and ready for battle. He was soon turned around by the young military commander.
Haig was seen as unnecessarily ordering men to run into No man’s land while the Germans shot at the allies like fish in a barrel. Supporting the statement that General Douglas Haig is ‘the butcher of the Somme’ Many of General Haig’s own men were against him because of his tactics and underestimation of weaponry. The main reasons for the soldiers being against Haig are the fact that he constantly sent them over the top even though he knew that the Germans were ready with their machine guns and that he lived in comfort while the soldiers battled it out. The evidence is a letter, written by Lieutenant J. A. Raws of the 23rd battalion addressing his family before his death: “We are lousy, stinking, ragged, unshaven, and sleepless.
He found himself the leader of a faction that was against the island’s governor, Pasquale Paoli. The two men went to war against each other, and in the end, Napoleon and his followers were banished. Unlike Hitler, Napoleon rose through the military. He proved to be a strong leader in the military, eventually making his way to General. In 1796, Napoleon commanded an army that defeated Austria, one of France’s primary rivals.
Because of Napoleon’s selfishness when conquering other countries he is considered a tyrant. Even though Napoleon was a tyrant, he still had many accomplishments to help benefit France. Napoleon ended the French revolution, therefore ending many of the country’s problems. Before Napoleon, there was constant violence, acts for revolution, and economic instability. Napoleon overthrew the Directory in a coup d’etat in 1799 and was the beginning of the Napoleonic Era.
Another reason feudalism lost power was the mercenaries that fought for the English king. After the first of the many treaties during the war was signed in 1360 by France, the English king did not want to release his unruly soldiers on his own land. Instead, they were loosed on France where they were free to loot and pillage as they pleased. Castles that belonged to lords took a beating as the mercenaries took them over and then sold them back to the lords for a large price. New weaponry made in the war made the king stronger against nobles.
I am going to answer these questions and more throughout this essay. He was an enemy of the confederate states, John Wilkes Booth killed him and Andrew Johnson took presidency. Abraham was the leader of the north and led them during the civil war against the south. Lincoln was the first American president to be assassinated but certainly was not the last. President Lincoln was killed because the conspirators, like John Wilkes Booth, were angry at how the north fought the Civil War since the outcome was not good for them.
The bitter irony that Adolf Hitler, leader of the German empire, in a final testament expelled top members of his administration for their “disloyalty to the Reich and their Furher” (Monahan & Neidel-Greenlee, 2004, p. 452), did what most consider a cowardly and dishonorable act by committing suicide as the allied troops were closing in on his capture. To dwell on the final days of the war doesn’t do the book justice, there were so many heroes written about, from nurses and surgeons to the infantry that they served, too many people whose lives were forever changed by war. All the influences and change prompted by the necessity of war weren’t negative, to see the role of the registered nurse evolve from the stereotypical assistant and “hand-holder” to the sole anesthesiologist in an active frontline battle zone was exciting and helped to illustrate that nurses will do what needs to be done, that they are capable of more than they realize when a challenge is put in front of them. Of course there are stories of the hysterical nurse or the soldiers
Hunger for complete control and raw power makes for inattentive leaders who make unwise decisions due to the ignorance of the important problems. Adolf Hitler, for example, made the wrong choices when it came to WWII and his distraction led to the downfall of his empire and the victory of the war by the Americans. He became obsessed with creating a perfect society, and in doing so he created the biggest genocide the world has ever seen- The Holocaust. Hitler was obsessed with making sure that everyone was a follower of his rule, and anyone that went against what he said was executed. The same is true in the novella Animal Farm, when Napoleon ruthlessly slaughters many animals because he is under the impression that they are in cohorts with is enemy, Snowball, and are sabotaging his rule by committing crimes that Snowball has told them to
In the essay, “Letter to President Pierce”, written by Chief Seattle, he stated, “We know the white men does not understand our ways. One portion of the land is the same as the next, for he is a stranger who comes in the night and takes from the land whatever he needs. The Earth is not his brother, but his enemy, and when he conquered it, he moves on” (Seattle 648). Mankind is selfish, and should treat every living organism with affection, not over use it for their needs. Buggy horses are tortured every day, just to die a disgusting death at the slaughterhouse the horse will be sent to when it cannot fight anymore.