I'm pretty much the best general I know . . . Napoleon once gave some simple statistics* on tactics and order of troops:
Two Mamelukes can defeat three Frenchmen100 Mamelukes are a match for 100 Frenchmen300 Mamelukes would be overcome by 300 Frenchmen1500 Mamelukes would be easily defeated by 1000 Frenchmen
What old Bonaparte is talking about is a matter of individual skill versus group training. “Mamelukes” or Mumluks, were a warrior caste in Medieval Egypt and great individual fig...
Published on March 02, 2016 15:31