Who should have won the Napoleonic Wars?

**~~Joe McCarthy~~** · 01-13-2012, 04:15 PM

The wars that made the modern world.

**Geminus** · 01-13-2012, 04:51 PM

Maybe apart from the French - who would really want Napoleon to have won...?

**~~Joe McCarthy~~** · 01-13-2012, 05:00 PM

Originally Posted by Geminus

Maybe apart from the French - who would really want Napoleon to have won...?

You might be surprised.

**russland** · 01-13-2012, 05:21 PM

General Frost.

**~~Joe McCarthy~~** · 01-13-2012, 05:24 PM

Originally Posted by russland

General Frost.

'General Frost' is pretty much who did win.

**Logan** · 01-13-2012, 06:03 PM

Sounds a bit like another that was to follow.

Napoleon's splendid Grande Armee had been completely decimated in the Russian campaign under his generalship. The immense sufferings and the enormous loss of life caused by his actions hardly affected the Emperor. Important matters had to be attended. He still had to attempt to hold together his coalition and build a new army. He would remark, "Those men whom Nature had not hardened against all chances of fate and fortune seemed shaken; they lost their cheerfulness and good humor, and saw ahead of them nothing but disaster and catastrophe. Those on whom she had bestowed superior powers kept up their spirits and normal dispositions, seeing in the various ordeals a challenge to win new glory."

Turned out well enough in his end.

**beaver** · 01-13-2012, 07:00 PM

'General Frost' is pretty much who did win.

Oh, the Red Army broke through the Mannerheim line too late because of the 'General Frost'

**The Lawspeaker** · 01-14-2012, 03:41 AM

Coalition or the frogs. It is six of one and half a dozen of the other.

**~~Joe McCarthy~~** · 01-14-2012, 06:08 AM

Originally Posted by Civis Batavi

Coalition or the frogs. It is six of one and half a dozen of the other.

More like French domination and tyranny or the balance of power that resulted in the Concert of Europe and the Pax Britannica.

A French victory might very well have left fewer British troops to be thrown at us though and might possibly have created an opening for the US to conquer Canada.

**The Lawspeaker** · 01-14-2012, 06:14 AM

Originally Posted by Joe McCarthy

More like French domination and tyranny or the balance of power that resulted in the Concert of Europe and the Pax Britannica.

A French victory might very well have left fewer British troops to be thrown at us though and might possibly have created an opening for the US to conquer Canada.

"Yawns"