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Napoleon repeatedly took stupid military risks because action mattered more than reality for sustaining his myth.
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Marengo
Napoleon repeatedly took stupid military risks because action mattered more than reality for sustaining his myth.
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"So rather than just sit and enjoy being emperor, he decides to go to Italy again, okay? So the first thing he does, which..."
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"...people into the promised land. Okay? This is the Battle of Marengo, where Napoleon showed up and destroyed, but he got lucky again."
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Napoleon looks like the genius of the French Revolution because he gives history its most cinematic image: speed, war, destiny, empire.
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