This man is a true gentleman. Met him at a luncheon and he sit afterwards and signed three books for me and was very cordial. Men are born gentleman are made.
Napoleon is the greatest man who I have ever learned about. The more I read of him and his influence (even Balzac and other offshoots of his influence on the French at the time) the more I know him as Napoleon--The Great.
@@MarlboroughBlenheim1 The entire Age of Enlightenment as a period of major global change can be summarized in the life of one individual, Napoleon. That is greatness.
@@historyrepeat402 more than Voltaire, Kant, Adam Smith, Franklin, Galileo, Descartes, Newton, Locke and Rousseau…. ? You’ll have to enlighten me, pardon the pun, on how you see Napoleon having contributed what these people did, and why a man who was anti democratic, pro empire, pro slavery, pro religion, and who fought a series of wars including aggressive wars of conquest killing hundreds and hundreds of thousands …. is the key man of the enlightenment?
I have recently and I must admit quite easily come to recognize Dr. Andrew Roberts as one of the great author/historians of our time. Though I do so not for his intelligence and knowledge per say, though these traits are most certainly present in him with an incredible degree of depth and vastness, but what makes him so unique is his passion for his subjects that spreads to those that listen to his understanding of history that produces within others a zeal to want to know and understand more of the subjects that he teaches about! Thank you Dr.Roberts, - JOHNNY!
It was brilliant! This also explains why Churchill had backed early de Gaulle while he was politically nothing in 1940. Roosevelt had refused. As a french man I admire Napoleon of course but I I admire Churchill too, they have many traits in common. Courage, tenacity, the hability of imagining the future, high self confidence and the right words to convince the people when everything seems to be lost. I don't know George but Diesel Washington, the guy who discovered the diesel washing machine that can wash a ton of dirty clothes in one time ;-)
Dr.Andrew Roberts is surely soft spoken and a gentleman.And his observation that Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte was never a narcissistic,megalamonic or demagogue as Hitler, Stalin,Mussolini and Mao Zedong is correct.
Yes but to defend the benefits of the revolution for the people ( and off course himself and his people along the way). He set the masses free by giving everyone rights. Not equal rights yet but at least everyone was a citizen and fell under the same code of law. Without Napoleon Europe would still have been left at the mercy of nobility and the church for ages. Th e Church and nobility did not pay taxes before the revolution. They were also mostly related, brothers of counts became bishops or cardinals etc. @@MarlboroughBlenheim1
Dardanelles is an example of an initial bold strategy- the purely naval operation envisioned by Churchill - can get bent out of shape at a tactical level - in this case mines 🤷♂️
I is quite obvious that Winston Churchill was a reflection of his Class / he had completely and undieing loya to the ( British empire ) not to the English Working Class . Only a casual study of his record / information that unfortunate was kept secret from the public until recently that this man was an ( imperialist)
Churchill was a proud imperialist who believed Empire was a force for good.. To say he didn’t care for the working man is patently wrong; he was President of the Board of Trade in the liberal government between 1906 - 1911 and key reformer & driver introducing Old Age Pension, unemployment benefits, labour exchanges, mine welfare & safety reforms.. a multifaceted and complex man who defies attempts to categorise him in todays fashion of oppressed & oppressor ..
Some as there are always nincompoops.. your father can speak to a small subset of himself and acquaintances; Without at least 40% of the working class vote he would never have been elected.. ergo your statement is vacuous
British empire met its sunset,since war monger Churchill dug a tomb for the Nation step by step:Boer war, Gallipoli disaster ww1, Norway fiasco ww2 etc. He promoted a war, didn't have muscle to show in Poland & Dunkirk theaters. He dragged the world (Canada,Australia,New Zealand,South Africa,India,and USA) into flames to preserve the Empire; and germinated Soviet communism to pollute the world . Britain is the one deserved most blames for sacrificing millions of lives during WW2. Yalta conference (Feb 4-11 1945), among many issues discussed, Polish territory was outstanding and thorny between Churchill and Stalin. Poland was possessed by Soviet Communism ; the original objective of WW2 was lost. Ill results of victorious Soviet Union : 1) again Churchill battle cried “Iron Curtain 1945”, 2) Chinese civil war: Nationalist (USA-aided) vs Communist (Russian-backed) 11.1945, 3)Truman Doctrine 1947, 4) Marshall Plan & Berlin airlift in 1948, 5) East/West German nations and Communist China were established in 1949, 6) Korea war 1950, 7) The French defeat at Dien Bien Phu to Communist Vietnam 1954……… Today Communist China is spreading coronavirus and displaying hegemony globally Britain & Churchill could never admit the gigantic disaster on their part; therefore a conjugate scheme had to kick in to justify the War and to benefit both Allied and Zionists through non-stop demonizing the Third Reich as an entertainer money making business. The greatest tragedy was that Churchill started a world war over Poland and then gave it away to Stalin whom he knew was a worse dictator than Hitler. Thus sacrificing millions of lives for nothing
Congratulations 🎉.. you win today’s prize for the most banal, ill informed and asinine post🤦♂️.. factually your ‘treatise’ is littered with errors ie it was Chamberlains government who declared war on Nazi Germany, not Churchill.. It was Hitler who invaded Poland, after the weak west folded over Sudetenland and Hitlers transgressions. It was FDR who sold out Poland to the Soviets, not WSC WSC was a war correspondent during the Boer War, not a politician 🤦♂️ The blame for WW2 and all that follows lies at a number of doors - Versailles, weak western governments in the 1930s, but ultimately firmly at the door of the Austrian Corporal who made such a pigs ear of its management how anyone can say his name with a straight face is beyond me.. The responsibility for post war Europe lies firmly at the door of the USA who were more keen to dismantle the British empire, to line their own pockets - Lend Lease; has there ever been a more incorrectly labelled policy ever? It should have been called assets stripping UK.. compounded by both FRD & Truman not having the measure of Stalin, unlike the colossus Churchill who knew exactly who and what Stalin was. British Socialist PM Attlee (45-50) oversaw the postwar catastrophe not Churchill.. If necessary I can list all of your basic errors but rather I’d suggest you read more, a lot more..
Churchill was in the pay of two foreign agencies prior to WW2. Why wasn’t he ever investigated properly? It is true that most of the workers didn’t like him, especially after he deployed troops and armoured vehicles onto the streets of London during the general strike of 1926. He only came to power again because he had no further chance to stop the welfare state. More evidence will come to light with time, but the facts already available mark him well enough. I’m sick of Britain being constantly put down and criticised, always the but of some derision. I’m more sickened however by the veneration of this man. He directed the U.K. headlong into the abyss, leaving the doors wide open for anyone from former colonies to barge in. He knew Britain couldn’t beat the third Reich militarily, but as Hitler said “ if that accursed man gains power he will turn the whole world against us.” Hitler was the right and look at the outcome. It’s a disgraceful situation and this man is worshipped?
Anyone who ends with saying Hitler was right only reveals the galactic abyss which is masquerading as their intellect🤦♂️.. The accusation that WSC wanted to ‘stop the welfare state’ is laughable beyond words as he was a driving force in its creation as President of the Board of Trade 1906-1911 so introduced the old age pension, unemployment benefits, labour exchanges, safety & and welfare reforms in coal mines.. And this oft repeated trope that the ‘working man hated WSC’ is patently absurd as he would never have got elected without at least 40% of the working man voting for him 🤦♂️.. Read more real books and less conspiracy or neomarxist revisionist histories.. a lot more 🤦♂️
