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Jiang treats Davout and Napoleon's officer bench as the decisive execution layer beneath Napoleon's vision.
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Jiang treats Davout and Napoleon's officer bench as the decisive execution layer beneath Napoleon's vision.
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Jiang reads the Reign of Terror as a policy of mass execution justified as revolutionary purification against internal enemies, speculation, hoarding, and conspiracy.
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"Okay? Think about that. This is the best army in the world. The Prussians will do 20 kilometers in one day. The Vaux is..."
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"But you know what? There could have been rain. Right? He could have gotten lost. An army could have come in and blocked his..."
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"...of Terror. The Reign of Terror is a time of mass execution, okay? The guillotine in Paris. In order to solidify the revolution, in..."
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"So, over a few years, three or four years, the Reign of Terror will kill, at all, at least 40,000 people within Paris alone,..."
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"Pilate. Pontius Pilate is the Roman governor who orders Jesus' execution, okay? Yeah, Pontius Pilate."
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"...his own sons to death. So he orders and organizes the execution of his two sons, okay?"
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"...stern resolution was still more apparent as he superintended the public execution."
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"...get killed. Not only that, but I'm going to organize their execution, okay? And we can imagine, okay, this is Lucius Brutus. And he..."
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"...you see what happened, okay? So Brutus is traumatized by the execution of his two sons. There is now a void in his heart...."
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"...prevent them from reproducing. That's one solution. Another solution is, well, execution. Right? So if you're a criminal, or you are physically violent, or..."
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"...me tyrant. Okay? The National Assembly is now calling for his execution because he's a tyrant. Were I such, they would grovel at my..."
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"...cultures, the worst punishment they inflicted on the individual was not execution. It was actually banishment. If you killed someone, we didn't kill you,..."
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