iniquitous stare of despots. He knows his responsibilities to his country and his God. Yes‚ the Filipino fights‚ but he fights under the banner of freedom. He does not have the selfish ambitions of Julius Casaer! He does not have the imperial greed of Napoleon Bonaparte. He rises‚ radiant and resplendent blessed by a holy cause and holding high the Torch of Liberty. You are a Filipino soldier. You are the descendant of a noble race‚ whose character has been tested in the severest trials and human afflictions
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Ambition is that part of our emotions which craves for success. History has given it a negative connotation. Napoleon Bonaparte had an ambition: to become the ruler of Europe and consequently‚ the world. So did Alexander‚ William II and Hitler. This ambition drove them to massacre a million lives and thus the negative connotation arose. Aspiration on the other hand is described as the “will to succeed”. Having the Will to succeed is preferred over having a strong desire to succeed. Period. Aspiration
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about by the French revolution‚ which in turn left a foreign policy legacy with incomplete ambitions and forced Napoleon to carry it out. This essay will take a thematic approach rather than a chronology of battles. Context of French revolution napoleon’s One explanation as to why Napoleon fought so many battles is that he did not have a coherent grand strategy compelled Napoleon to continuously fight battles as he had no concrete foreign policy objectives – rather‚ war was his objective. Those
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categories”. When Napoleons army advanced‚ The Russian Bear did not retaliate by advancing his troops‚ but instead drew them back. Thinking outside of the norm he did not jump to any predetermined actions but instead thought ahead and devised a plan to lure Napoleons troops away from their resources and introduced their secret weapon the Russian winter. “Welcoming new information”‚ Kutuzov knew that Napoleon wanted Moscow and he welcomed it. Using the pressing behavior of Napoleon‚ he was able to adjust
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Napoleon Bonaparte rise to power was because of his strong army he formed and his strategy for winning wars however his fall came when he went to Russia intending to defeat them but lost. Napoleon’s policies were to ensure freedom and equality for the people and to give the people the education they needed. Napoleon Bonaparte was born Napoleone di Buonaparte in Corsica‚ August 15‚ 1769. He was a small child‚ and often was teased by his classmates when he was enrolled in military college
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become very interested with Napoleon Bonaparte’s empire‚ this fascination often lies in questions and speculations about his personality. Napoleon often found it hard to “articulate his true intentions” and many memoirs offer insight but do not quite grasp the true meaning of his personality. Memoirs also only give us a glimpse of his personality during a certain period‚ not how it changed over his 51-year reign. This lack of information about his true personality leads Napoleon to be a
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superpower Napoleon Bonaparte faced his final defeat at the battle of Waterloo. Paramount to the Napoleonic Wars‚ the Battle of Waterloo will be the thrilling conclusion to “Napoleon the Musical”. In order to fully understand Napoleons final defeat it is critical that we briefly address the events that lead to his exile and the motives behind his final return to France. The final act of the musical will begin with a picture of a news paper being projected onto the set wall that reads “Napoleon Bonaparte
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Annotated Bibliography Black‚ Jeremy. "Napoleon & Europe." History Today‚ vol. 48‚ no. 1‚ 1998‚ p. 10+. Biography in Context‚ link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/A20227236/BIC1?u=nort76383&xid=6c0638fc. Accessed 1 Jan. 2017. Jeremy Black is a Professor of History at the University of Exeter. He studied at Queens’ College Cambridge‚ St John’s College Oxford‚ and Merton College Oxford before joining the University of Durham as a lecturer. Where he gained his PhD and ultimately his professorship. He
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considered the greatest battle in the Napoleonic wars. It was also napoleons greatest defeat. This battle brought the down fall of napoleons reign‚ and helped restore the king of France to his throne. This restore Europe back to its original state. Napoleon had returned to from his exile on the island of Elba to build an army and reclaim his empire. Many states joined together forming the Seventh Coalition to fight Napoleon. Napoleon had to act fast‚ so he split his army up and went to attack the
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To what extent should Napoleon Bonaparte’s rule in France from 1799 to 1814 be described as “ruthless and dictatorial”? To be Ruthless means to be cruel‚ harsh and oppressive. To be Dictatorial means personal rule‚ autocratic‚ intolerant and tyrannical. Napoleon was both ruthless and dictatorial because he established his highly autocratic‚ intolerant and tyrannical rule in France in complete disregard for revolutionary ideals of democratic participation and representative democracy. Although he
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