Napolean - bbc2 now

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

Was good programme, will tape the rest

2nd episode tonight, Brendan.

I'm watching all 3 together..

give Ebu the heads up

Ebu is still revovering from a severe thrashing, and is currently sat with a glass of ribena, and a cold compress on his noggin..

Pas ce soir, Joséphine

(Well somebody had to do it)

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

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.

This is something else I'm recording but may never watch

I am always doing that, so I am glad I watched it

I haven't actually read this thread

Will do so right now.

A frequently do that as well

I frequently

Read it.

I know very little about Napolean. I will make sure I watch it.

midget

average height for the time. Midget is british propaganda, still potent 200 years later

Ebul Gery is Arabian for evil midget..

Notalot of people know that..

impotent according to Josephine

Poor Ebul

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

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..

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?

nice ice cream, inclusive

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

No temper lost by me, just utter filth from you. Apology not accepted and never will be.

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

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