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16 Jun 15
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Historian Andrew Roberts marks the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo with a three-part series telling the definitive story of Napoleon Bonaparte, the Corsican Army officer who would eventually become the First Consul and later still Emperor of France. Travelling throughout Europe, and making use of some of the ill-fated dictator's personal letters, Andrew highlights Napoleon's early military successes in Italy and Egypt, as well as his role in pacifying anti-revolutionary activists in Paris during the 1790s, and his role as a progressive moderniser in the early years of his dictatorship
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Was good programme, will tape the rest
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2nd episode tonight, Brendan.
I'm watching all 3 together.. |
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give Ebu the heads up
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Ebu is still revovering from a severe thrashing, and is currently sat with a glass of ribena, and a cold compress on his noggin..
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Pas ce soir, Joséphine
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You can visit Napoleon's tomb in Paris, it's an impressive great big stone sarchophagus, it's in the same complex as the army museum so worth a visit if you like that sort of thing. I was a bit surprised they'd built something like that I thought he was persona non grata at the end. Which is almost french
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guinness2dear • June 17, 2015 12:26 PM BST
Ebu is still revovering from a severe thrashing, and is currently sat with a glass of ribena, and a cold compress on his noggin.. Dream on Guinness I liked the program. I was interested to see how Andrew Roberts pointed out how the majority of the Napoleonic wars were in fact caused by other countries attacks on France. A lot of them financed by this country. It was the old aristocracy of Europe fearing for the new ideas of the French Revolution, creating a better, more progressive and fairer society for all I consider Napoleon an incredibly intelligent and able man, in fact a great man, and one of the great military commanders. But even he was not perfect, in tomorrows episode we will see him make the terrible mistake which downed him I admire Napoleon. |
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This is something else I'm recording but may never watch
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I am always doing that, so I am glad I watched it
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I haven't actually read this thread
 Will do so right now. |
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A frequently do that as well |
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I frequently
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Read it.
I know very little about Napolean. I will make sure I watch it. |
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midget
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average height for the time. Midget is british propaganda, still potent 200 years later
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Ebul Gery is Arabian for evil midget..
Notalot of people know that.. |
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impotent according to Josephine
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Poor Ebul
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If you want an argument Guinness...then this thread is about Napoleon, so confine your arguments
to that If you ever went on the Greyhound forum you would know what EbulGery stood for |
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brendanuk1 • June 17, 2015 11:19 PM BST
average height for the time. Midget is british propaganda, still potent 200 years later true Brendan, he surrounded himself by very tall guardsman probably to reduce the chance of assassination I would guess? |
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You're a twát. There is no argument about that. And i will hound you till my toes curl up for what you called me the other night..
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nice ice cream, inclusive
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Feel free...we both lost our temper the other night, things were said that should not have been said
If you want me to apologise ok I apologise Chill out, lay off that blackcurrant juice for a while |
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No temper lost by me, just utter filth from you. Apology not accepted and never will be.
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I see we are not going to kiss and make up
oh well If people dig me out, I dig back, I am sorry if I said things I should not have they were only said in the heat of the moment, they were not meant to apply for life |
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History is interpretive, none of us were there
Also to understand History properly one has to look at events using the values of the time, using todays values is not the way to understand it Also todays values will change, they will be different in another 100 years or so |