Napoleon won 54 battles when personally heading his army, with only 7 losses and none against a weaker force. Following this trend, he was on way to defeat the British army under Wellington in Waterloo (he had 73,000 men on field against Wellington's 68,000) and was about to break the Wellington's centre when the Prussians arrived at 16h30 hours and reversed the tide.Most of his victories came in 1796 and 1814, and he won 10 battles both year. Between 1799 and 1809, he went undefeated, and his losses after 1809 came against armies of Fifth and Sixth Coalition where he was generally outnumbered by insurmountable proportions.
also, at waterloo he lost all of his cav to a premature charge ordered by Michel Ney. He didn't do most of the commanding, as he was extremely sick at the time. wrong place, wrong time.
Salutations de Russie;) La Russie et la France sont deux grands pays avec une grande histoire. La Russie et la France ont beaucoup en commun. Vive la France😎 🇷🇺🤝🇲🇫
"The ideas that underpin our modern world-meritocracy, equality before the law, property rights, religious toleration, modern secular education, sound finances, and so on-were championed, consolidated, codified and geographically extended by Napoleon. To them he added a rational and efficient local administration, an end to rural banditry, the encouragement of science and the arts, the abolition of feudalism and the greatest codification of laws since the fall of the Roman Empire. " -Andrew Roberts, British historian.
Being undefeated doesn't neccessarily mean being great. You can beat kids and never lose. Napoleon wasn't undefeated but he is defenitely one of the greatest. Actually he wasn't only great as a military commander but also as a governor.
Not a single commander could claim he defeated him...even in Waterloo it was blucher and Wellington not Wellington alone hence Napolean the undefeated..
Actually, modern England was created by the French. The Normans, then the Plantagenets, that reigned over Britain for more than 3 centuries. France wasn't a modern "nation-state" but all these guys had common language and culture (for exemple William the Conqueror army's sung the "Song of Roland" before the Battle of Hastings, an old and popular French war anthem. Honni soit qui mal y pense^^
Messieurs ! L'empereur nous regarde. Nous allons avoir l'occasion de lui montrer ce que nous savons faire. Sabres au clair ! Gentlemen ! The Emperor is watching us. We are going to have the opportunity of showing him what we're made of. Unsheath sabers !
France had concuered Europe twice under Napoleon I and Charlemange. The 2 only empires after the fall of Rome who could be compared to this old Empire were both French. France was during many ages the superpower of Europe with its many inhabitents untill the creation of Germany with had even more inabitents then France The french army was the greatest of Europe untill the 20th century
I'm not sure if The Undefeted is the correct title for Napoleon, but their enemies call him The God of War. Napoleon undoubtely is in the top five of best generals in human history.
Not a french king invaded England, that was not neccesary, an duke was enough William the conqueror. Before you start,he was french, simply prove, all these french words in your dictionarry. Normandy was already part of the French kingdom. The franks are most of all Dutch, Belgians and french who conquered the rest. The first crusade is the only one who succeded and that was an french crusade. The kingdom of Jerusalem had french kings as proof and french (+Latin and Italian) as language
William the scandovian descended *norman* conquered England in his own name, not in the name of the French crown. Henry V the Englishman, conquered France in the name of the English crown and was about to unify both countries under one Crown (a feat not achieved before or after) but lucky for France he died young (undefeated)
@@fredbarker9201 You were beaten by a young peasant called Jeanne d'Arc and for having burnt her you deserve less respect than the Russians who burnt Moscow
Not a single commander could claim he defeated him...even in Waterloo it was blucher and Wellington not Wellington alone hence Napolean the undefeated..
When the Battle of Azincourt took place, France was in terrible civil war between Burgundies and Armagnacs. That's the only reason of the Henry V success. When France recovered its unity, the English were kicked in a few years. So, the total success of Azincourt is always overestimated by the English propaganda. The Armangnacs took a revenge a few years later in la Brossinière. It's a proof that Armagnac's France was far from collapse.
The Franks settled in Gaul and mixed peacefully with Gallo-Romans as soon as the beginning of the 6th century (Reign of Clovis I). Then, they conquered eastern lands : so France is the country that received the largest legacy of the Frankish culture and DNA, even if the French language is today far from the old French.
Yes it is still a mighty nation, but my point is that it used to be the super power of the world(the world adopted french customs like the world adopts american customs now) but now its not thanks to Napoleon and most leaders after him.
Wouldn't you have invaded Russia? Would you? After destroying their armys time after time, battle after battle, war after war? Napoleon has recently become father he wanted to secure his empire by conquering his last enemy who could oppose him but mother winter decided other wise. ps: France was also the superpower during the Medieval (together with the Holy Roman Empire and later Spain) and even these days France is still one of the strongest of Europe.
@Peter Bergmeister The Franks came from Germany and settled during Roman erea in Belgium and the Netherlands, conquering later Gaulle. They formed after many wars an Frankish empire. Later they replaced for great parts the West-Roman Empire. West-Francië will become the kingdom of France. The French are the descendants of the Franks. France was an mighty Europeaan power in the medieval, They conquered the Holy lands and England. It was an nation ->the Feodal Kingdom of France
Avec l'Empereur dans le coeur... rien n'est impossible ! / With the Emperor in the heart... nothing is impossible ! / Con el Emperador en el corazón... nada es imposible ! / Con l'Imperatore nel cuore... niente è impossibile ! / Mit dem Imperator im Herz... ist nichts unmöglich !
well, after Crecy and Poitiers the French under Du Guesclin reconquered most of France. Did england have a regency then too? After Azincourt the same happened, the French reconquered the country. maybe it had something to do with the fact that in the 15th century France had both greater resources and more manpower to draw upon than England?
They had to put 6 coalitions with a Total of Seven different nations during a decade to finally get to defeat him, and they were two to break him at Waterloo, using spies working for Louis XVIII, that gave intels to England and Wellington. Alone, Wellington would never have stood a chance. In that way Napoleon is virtually undefeated, they needed him to be betrayed, and required cheats and intels to finally get him.
Il y a quelqu'un qui pourrait écrire ces que Napoléon dit? Surtout entre 3:10-3:11. J'apprends encore des francais donc je ne peux pas comprendre tout. Merci :)
Antonios Kelesidis Ce n’était pas Napoleon qui parlait mais le Maréchal Ney. Il dit « Avec moi soldats, venez voir comment meurt un Maréchal de France ! »
