What Happened To Napoleon's Son? 

Did you ever hear the tragedy of Napoleon 2 ?

@@savagedarksider5934 I thought not. It's not a story the Austrians would tell you.

Did you ever hear the tragedy of Darth Plagueis the wise?

its a blessing. One french dictator was enough!

@@raigarmullerson4838 what?

Yep especially how his country armies were always obliterated by the Emperor each time.

Blood is blood, even tho its tainted by your enemy

Actually, he let his daughter marry Napoleon after the treaty (I forgot the name and it's common for a losing faction to marry someone from the winning side to strengthen their alliance.) Though, Napoleon really love Josephine more than his second. His exact last words were his first wife

Francis is the origin of Napoleon's quote on "do not fight the same enemy too often, lest he learn how to fight you" And he did. Fuck, he did. When Austria caught up, the French Empire ended

@@riograndedosulball248 Austria ? You mean another coalition of a bazillion soldiers of Russia, Prussia, Confederation of the Rhine, Spain, Italy, Sweden, england only to take Napoleon out of the throne of France ? Austria did sent soldiers too but they were done and never took decisions without the Russians or Swedish

He had many sons but it was the first legitimate one, it's the noble one that was weak and died young as expected sadly for an austrian noble family with generations of inter marrying but the others lived some descendants even died in ww1 and ww2 but he still have direct descendants today.

@@ommsterlitz1805 bastard line

@@bokonoo77 lol but don't count on it,YT are @$$holes🥰

There was a huge painting of the King of Rome brought along on the Russian campaign as well

@@ommsterlitz1805 the in-marriage stuff was rampant on the Spanish Habsburgs tho, less so in the Austrian part

*SPOILER ALERT*

Wars are just a game to the elites. No need for hard feelings among family members.

Well he was his grandfather and the best security against a new Napoleon is to shape the boy.

Literally a prisoner and likely murdered just like his father.

yeah because he was still blood? pretty normal if you ask me.

9:25 He looks like a Shoujo Manga Prince

I think he was right too. Napoleon and Josephine did not have a perfect relationship, but she was a strong person who complimented Napoleon well as Empress. Marie Louise by contrast was a fickle person who was definitely not interested in ever swimming upstream.

Geeddfffffff

Well, she was the wife he insisted on; he had to have a Hapsburg the way some men have to have the fifty-foot yacht instead of the thirty-foot yacht.

@@MsLogjam he wanted a Romanov but couldn’t so he chose a Habsburg instead

@@MsLogjam and women aren’t yatch

@Kaan Özkuscu i know that , still ironic

@Kaan Özkuscu he was right wing?

@@DJTOM_ How can someone be right wing if they're a leader for a SOCIALIST party? And much of Hitler's politics were definitely socialist ones.

Interesting

@@pelleoh Fascism is beyond and above the left-right dichotomy

Rather funny though how despite all their attempts to prevent a Bonaparte return, the European powers failed when Napoleon III walked into Paris (and later went to war with the Austrians).

@@thunderbird1921 Napoleon III was quite underrated

@@fahoodie1852 Not quite, hella underrated, that dude was awesome, but everydody remembers him for the failure with Prussia, wich was inevitable.

@@regulusmuphrid4891 vich vas inevitabule

@@imperiumbrasiliae ???

You dont need badassery necessarily, Just look at DJT Jr. ;)

Oh yes, because we have to rewrite the story to make Napoleon "badass". That is what 19th Century Europe did to make themselves seem "glorious", "triumphant" and "great". How do you turn a reckless, incompetent, warmongering, oppressive military dictator with a powerful army that ends in total defeat into an enlightened, noble, military genius who ended in victory? Ask the 19th Century European historians who did just that with Napoleon. Because 19th Century could not stand the fact that Europe almost was conquered by a delusional sociopath who hijacked a powerful military, and acted with no regard for humanity leaving millions dead in defeat, so they changed the story. Sadly for 20th Century Europe, another delusional sociopath would hijack another powerful country and act with no regard for humanity leaving millions dead in defeat. But in the 20th Century, Europe would not be able control the narrative, since they could not even save themselves.

You obviously don't even understand the comment😂

@@DW-rs8tq I'm not going to devote any energy to replying to that paragraph. We'd essentially be arguing over semantics and interpreting the same set of facts differently.

@@RidleyScottOwnsFailedDictators You might want to know... the Napoleonic wars were all defensive wars.

@@detonator1329 The summer and disease did a lot of damage to Napoleon before winter ever had a chance

@@victor.elkins Same as for Adolph.

@@weebishusername9288 Indeed .

Conquering is easy when you start with a big population of 28 million, big population means big army

@@drpepper3838 The French Army was a huge hammer and Europe was a bunch of nails.

yes

Well his second was an Austrian no suprise there

The Germanic version of Napoleon was born in 1889

@@wendys9587 Hitler wasn't a great military commander

@@kimok4716 he conquered most of Europe. As a conqueror he is in the same club as Caesar, Alexander, Napoleon, etc.

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Wow that's cool. He really was brilliant. The French are unstoppable with a strong, smart, capable ruler. It took all of Europe to take him down... twice.

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@@dustin628 with a leader like him the French are dead literally dead look how many died also unstoppable but most dead

@China Boss do you not care bc Napoleon was extremely successful and the China boss Mao killed 45million+ innocent Chinese and failed to even take Taiwan?

He was 4cm larger than average.

i prefer "taller than nelson"

Is that a quote? Where's it from?

@@waynemarvin5661 Oversimplified

Just saw that Oversimplified video. LOL. "Hey! I'm average height for the time you JERK!"

It was their schtick (Shtick? Whatever). It was all they had.

Napoleon 2.0

He never said that in real life though. He even tried to have his son visit him when he returned to France and after exile.

1970?

@@verbinski3195 Film.

@@verbinski3195 A very good film I'd recommend watching.

@@verbinski3195 Imagine if he was around in 1970 that would be crazy

as long he didn't take Belgium and in particular, Antwerp, UK wouldn't rally the whole of Europe against him/France... at least until France become the main continental power then it's English "diplomacy" as usual, ally with the second continental power against the first...

He corresponded with Queen Victoria quite a bit. She looked at him as a son.

@@timothymoore6341wrong Napoleon, lol

@viralshield The Fuck?

@viralshield Napoleon was the type of men who would massacre a whole garrison after they have agreed on surrender terms or wouldn't agree to evacuate his woundes soldiers after a lost battle to safe face. There are not many men who brought per capita more death to Europe than Napoleon.

@@zoomerboomer1396 That is because England and her allies wouldn't stop declaring war on him.

@@Celedan So they should have waited until Napoleon conquered all Europe? Why was Napoleon invading other countries?

@@Celedan I mean they offered him peace with France keeping some of its borders and he gets to keep the throne but he refused

Makes a lot of sense.

yes

To be fair, if Europe had a second set of Napoleonic wars, they'd probably purge his bloodline to keep it from happening again.

@@SpaceMonkeyBoi Shit. If that happened. They might've painted Napoleon II as the OG Hitler or something

it's not because he reign he will start a new war; that's moronic he would just rule, good ruler, as he like his father, he will have succesful campaigns, but far from a total european major wars with russia prussia great britain spain italy sweden france etc involved

@@gutsjoestar7450 It was only a thought. I know Napoleon II may not have pulled the same mistake as his father by starting another World conflict. But he definitely could’ve been a good ruler. Seemed like an educated mind

Why did he cut his hair tho

@@herkestennefretediyom3267 because someone was spreading false news and rumors that he was a female dressed as a man to put an permanent stop to this rumor he cut his hair and the second and main reason because when he was in Egypt he could not tolerate the hot weather there so he cut his long hair there.

pretty sure he was motivated to leave elba and reform his empire when she died

Josephine didn't have a fertile womb to give Napo Napoleon. I can't understand why he liked her so much.

@@bonniemagpie5166 Because, shockingly, women are people and not just wombs with legs.

"Napoleon initially remarked that he had "married a womb" to an aide, but their relationship soon grew. He "spared no pains" to please her and claimed at one point to prefer Marie Louise to his first wife Joséphine; while he had loved Joséphine, and though he claimed Joséphine remained his greatest friend even after their amicable divorce, he had not respected her, whereas with Marie Louise, there was "Never a lie, never a debt" - presumably a reference to Joséphine's rumoured extramarital affairs and reputation as a spendthrift."

​@@samuelwithers2221Sadly that's what she was in the new movie. It's true that Napoleon's luck ran out after he divorced Josephine but she wasn't THAT good in military strategy.

You should be thankful his chin was not a kilometer long

Wait... He was called a "Rose" 👀???

@@imperiumbrasiliae indeed I am, he grew to be a handsome lad much like his father.

@Kaan Özkuscu Me at 1914, hey Ferdinand you don't wanna turn that way

@Kaan Özkuscu I am telling Chiang you gotta find this Mao guy. (1930)

Years later..in 2021. The world is divided in three and engulfed in a war that has lasted 5000 years. Khalif Omar the immortal, Ferdinand the iron cyborg and Napoleon the great have divided the world amongst themselves and the world has turned into a massive military complex. Hitler, an aspiring Austrian artist, advocates for world peace and has become the world’s greatest humanitarian. Ghandi, sick and tired of Omar’s authoritarian rules, has started an anarchy movement in india and has taken control of a nuke. Lenin Bezos is currently the world’s richest man and is the CEO of Tesla. He is married to Elena Romanov, a russian princess. Africa is united into one neutral country owned by Switzerland, an economic vassal of Napoleon. Brazil, a Omar Vassal, is now a maritime empire with great interest in 21st century pirating. Maria Theresa of ISIC is an infamous religious terrorist that is the instigator of the 1/45 attacks on the Reichstag. Toilet paper has just been invented recently in 2009. The Paris stocks is suffering a great depression, possibly due to the drop in Baguette-coin interest in favor of Schnitzel-crypto and Kebab currency

Thank God. There's no time machine. Ummmm........ Maybe there is. I kept on finding finding forgotten history and battles on RU-vid.

Maybe he'd have been a king to Austria. Who knows.

You think Napoleon was great? You must be fooled. I will not be one to defend an incompetent warmongering military dictator who destroyed his own powerful army, who had his soldiers "live off the land" as they killed and raped any civilians they wanted, who reinstated slavery of blacks in the French Caribbean, and who died a prisoner of war on a remote island responsible for the death of millions in total defeat. It is a disgrace that not only humanity defends this man, they honor him.

@@RidleyScottOwnsFailedDictators Napoleon was great.

​@@bykegetter478 Oh yes, because we have to rewrite the story to make Napoleon "great". That is what 19th Century Europe did to make themselves seem "glorious", "triumphant" and "great". How do you turn a reckless, incompetent, warmongering, oppressive military dictator with a powerful army that ends in total defeat into an enlightened, noble, military genius who ended in victory? Ask the 19th Century European historians who did just that with Napoleon. Because 19th Century could not stand the fact that Europe almost was conquered by a delusional sociopath who hijacked a powerful military, and acted with no regard for humanity leaving millions dead in defeat, so they changed the story. Sadly for 20th Century Europe, another delusional sociopath would hijack another powerful country and act with no regard for humanity leaving millions dead in defeat. But in the 20th Century, Europe would not be able control the narrative, since they could not even save themselves.

@@bykegetter478 No, Europe is lying. Europe is portraying a false image of "glory" and "triumph" when the real story is disaster, disgrace, mass-death, and total defeat. Napoleon took over the most powerful military in the world, and through reckless incompetence, destroyed his own army and left France conquered by enemies at a very high cost for France. Napoleon was not a great "conqueror" when he himself was conquered. Napoleon was a defeated disastrous ruler that only revisionist history from a shameless continent can make him great. It would happen again Europe, but in the 20th Century, you will not control the narrative when another lunatic hijacks a powerful military and leaves his own country totally defeated, because you will not even be able to save yourself.

@@RidleyScottOwnsFailedDictators Napoleon is great

and we probably gonna see a competent second french empire (if you don't Napoleon III is so incompetent that even mexico win against him

@@lixobounce6588 Napoleon III helped shaped France a lot. He just wasn't as good like his uncle.

I doublt it . He only had his grandperants to support him and protect him. The monent the Empiror died , he would be left without an ally because the hair despised him. Funny enaugh he actaully liked him as a person but hated him because of his father. The true meaning of been judged for the sins of your perants. It was the same with everybody else in Europe.

@@NeverGoingToGiveYouUp000He was just as influential as his uncle, just in different things, apart from the whole mexico and Prussia thing

Why it was in Austria?

@@Eternal996 watch the video

What a guy

Lincoln

And it's unusual how those deaths had impact to alter history.

Yes

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Napoleon would be defeated one day or the other. Even if he won at Waterloo he could force peace with the allies but Britain would again get cranky and start more wars with Napoleon and the depleting French army would eventually get destroyed.

@@purushothaman6698 Britian wasn’t strong to single handedly stop Napoleon’s empire

It's just exaggerated or badly painted.

@@untruelie2640 That doesn't make it any less strange.

@@w_5492 yes it does. Something being badly painted isn't confusing or out of the ordinary.

@@nonnaurbisness3013 It is when it's Napoleon's son.

@@w_5492 no its not

One of history's "bruh" moments

That would only make his death in my country even more tragic

Max Moseley F1 supremo

He probabaly would have become an Austrian general/high ranking military leader

@@michaelbuchinger6191 and given that he did somewhat admired his father, there’s a chance he would have started something

How much do we know for certain this guys is his descendant? Because in that case he’s more legitimate than Jean Christophe which is a descendant of the brother of Napoleon

@@Boretheory An illegitimate descendant has no dynastic claim

One day they might get permission to try that and see

Like a Durasic Park mutation

well, when you see how the French welcomed Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, the nephew, as president then emperor more than 30 years latter, you can imagine how they would have welcomed the son only 10 or so years latter...

fact is he changed it simple as that...

But all this does not mean that Napoleone was not proud to be the emperor of the French. He loved France and he was honored to be french. He wanted to be buried in Paris because without France he was nothing. France gave him Power and glory. But at the same time he was from Corsica and his family was from Tuscany. He was very proud of It. At home he was speaking Italian and corso with his family. Learned French when he was 9 years old. The First years in France for Napoleone were very difficult for lack of monay and more because His camerade were bulling him for His Italian accent and origins and considering him not french. During these Years he was not really Happy to be in France...... For this reason changed his surname Buonaparte to a more French Bonaparte. His father Carlo and his mother fought with Pasquale Paoli. Napoleone never forgave his father when left the fought to give to his family peace and stability. (beautiful are the letters that Napoleone wrote to Paoli and viceversa during all his Life) When in Italy went to the Village in Tuscany to visit the house and tomb of his family. The last letter that he wrote to his son was about to remember Who he was and his family (For Napoleon the family was the most importante institution ). His family moved to Italy and married Italian nobility. Say that Napoleone was French in my opinion Is reductive. There Is a public Napoleon the Emperor and a private Napoleon that was speaking Italian to his mother and Brothers and Corso with his nunny. Culturally his family was italian. We still consider Corsica Culturally italian. It Is like to Say that Garibaldi was french because he was Born in Nizza or Caterina de Medici was french because was the Queen of France....

yea this reeks of italian jealousy.....fact is napoleon changed his name and he spoke corsican....fact is nobody really thinks of italy when it comes to napoleon except some italians...italy as nation did not exist and even the notion of being an italian depending on who you asked on the italian pennisula wld get you vastly different responses.@@carlogrignaschi8773

and its sad becase italy has a tremendous amount to be proud of so many great things food, culture, music, art just the beauty of the country but trying to claim napoleon or even worse ignoring the unique corsican identity and many corsicans would disagree that they are italian many....@@carlogrignaschi8773

ok

Wow, indeed.

Wasn't Louis XVI's son technically Louis XVII before he died of Tuberculosis (after being tortured and probably raped) in a French jail? That's why the reinstated Burbon king was called Louis XVIII. The end of Louis XVII was not similar to Napoleon II. The former was seven and had been horribly abused for years.

I rather doubt that he would have had a chance at power, as the Age of Kings was passing.

​@@jeannerogers7085this is always a great fear of ppl and weird too lol.. the odds of this are always slim to knell, true it is in the genes but there's only one alexander, one napoleon, one ceaser etc etc. Ppl forget the other factors such as circumstances, upbringing and perspective Napoleon the second suffered gravely though being in the shadow of napoleon

@@jeannerogers7085 it was passing but still existed Monarchism was still a big thing in europe in his timeline and as what was mentioned in the video napoleon the third ascended to power, so he did have a chance had he not been sickly albeit its not a guarenteed he'd be the Emperor he still could've been a military general atleast, would he be as good as father? thats something I doubt as his father was one of the best in history but hes still maybe could've been good

Really? Who are they?

@@foreverseethe Prince Jean-Christophe Napoleon Bonaparte, descended from Napoleon's brother. In 2019 he married Countess Olympia von und zu Arco-Zinneberg who is the great-great-great niece of Archduchess Marie-Louise (she's a Habsburg). And so it continues...

@@markbehn8231 never head of him

How much you wanna bet one of his great grandsons is gonna get back to power, somewhere?

@Neptune's Daddy That's what you think. Continue.

That... Is a damn good alternative ending Imagine that alternative universe where Austria unifies Germany and Prussia remains a minor kingdom?

That's one that I've contemplated. The other is if Napoleon II had managed to make it to France and became a more competent emperor, who defeated the Prussians in the Franco-Prussian War.

Are you sure???? Why did he do that

@@AtheneonHitler admired and respected Napoleon as an avid history and military fan, so it was no wonder why he gave the same respect for his son

​@@robowisanveithasung6022He didn't admire him enough to not make his same winter mistake 😂

@@falconeshield you're right

Here's a clip from BABES ON BROADWAY of Judy Garland playing Sarah Bernhardt playing Napoleon II in L'AIGLON! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-rCiWXxvkAKc.html

Shot by Zulus!!! en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis-Napoléon,_Prince_Imperial

Short story: Mexico gained independence from Spain as the First Mexican Empire under Augustín de Iturbide. He was later dethroned and Mexico carried on as a republic. During the American Civil War, the US were not in the position to enforce the Monroe Doctrine, so Napoleon III. tried to intervene in Mexico. The French and some mexican politicians convinced Archduke Maximilan to become the new Emperor of Mexico. When the french troops had to leave the country, the Second Mexican Empire collapsed and Maximilian was shot by mexican rebel troops.

@@untruelie2640 very appreciated

@@DanielLopez-op8kv You should watch the armchair historian video on it

@@alexromero135 I’ll give it a watch. Thank you guys, this is the friendliest comment section I’ve seen

You think that wouldn't hurt those royal families' national pride to be forced to what was probably seen as a backwater where he still had the possibility of seizing power back through popular vote or hiding away on a ship back to europe.

@@jameskosusnik1102 I mean, I think it's sort of six of one half dozen of another. Like, on the one hand, keeping him in Europe and letting him live the prestigious life, except you're constantly worried he's about to go rogue and so you suppress his potential OR sending him to live in a backwater where he'd be far away from anywhere he might be tempted to take over, and actually even learn to be anti-monarchist, and then he could also actually make something of his life? Sounds to me the first thing is what you do when you care more about your family prestige and the second thing is what you do when you actually care about your grandson's happiness.

@@erraticonteuse The 2nd of which is i believe the attitude the royal families Europeans had, they were worried if he didn't take over the u s he'd cause enough public stir to either forcibly return to take power through manipulation of others, or just after he grew up could've easily went unnoticed as who he was on a ship bound back to France and start the dynasty over planning like his father. Which is crazy cause instead wondering who's gonna be next heir they were likely worried that it would be episode 3 revenge of the napoleon dynasty

Well show me this basic research that shows all of his illegitimate children are accounted for then

Maybe, but it could also be natural...death was common then - most people didn’t see 60, and about half of all kids born would not reach their 10th birthday. Their were also plenty of infectious diseases that stroke those in their 20-30s....TB, flu, etc