Napoleon Quotes

“Next day he proved the point that he was always singularly useless unless some daredevil escapade was called for.”
― Frank McLynn, Napoleon: A Biography

“The peculiarity of the Battle of Waterloo was its narrow compass, with 140,000 men crammed into three square miles; the front was only four kilometres wide, as against ten at Austerlitz.”
― Frank McLynn, Napoleon: A Biography

“he showed consummate folly in allowing the Duke to fight on ground of his own choosing.”
― Frank McLynn, Napoleon: A Biography

“In his preparations for the battle of Waterloo Napoleon contrived to produce a grand slam of mistakes. It is surprising that his great name as a captain has survived the lengthy checklist of errors he committed that day, or that Wellington should have gained such a great reputation for taking advantage of opportunities that were virtually handed him on a plate.”
― Frank McLynn, Napoleon: A Biography

“By any reckoning, the twenty-day march from Antibes to Paris was one of the high points in his life. As Balzac later wrote incredulously: ‘Before him did ever a man gain an Empire simply by showing his hat?”
― Frank McLynn, Napoleon: A Biography