Who should have won the Napoleonic Wars?

[Pallantides]

[SwordoftheVistula]

Coalition, for sure

Too bad for world civilization that later fools destroyed the Anglo-German alliance

[Ouistreham]

— "Who should have won the Napoleonic Wars?"

— Just for your information: Napoleon actually won.

After him, nation-states made of free citizens, civil codes, recourse to the law (and the metric system) became the norm throughout Europe, despite all futile British efforts to reverse the course of history.

The British attempt to restore old-style tyrannies was an abject failure. It only suceeded in Russia and Spain, which led those unfortunate nations to a long and painful decline with terrible consequences.

Wasn't it reminiscent of the current U.S. neo-con strive to base Pax Americana on outdated Muslim tyrannies like in Saudi Arabia?

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[Nglund]

The British attempt to restore old-style tyrannies was an abject failure. It only suceeded in Russia and Spain, which led those unfortunate nations to a long and painful decline with terrible consequences.

Tyrannies? Have you ever read Bonaparte's letters to the Genoese Senate? If anything, it was his way of applying republican ideals which was tyrannical.

[Joe McCarthy]

— "Who should have won the Napoleonic Wars?"

— Just for your information: Napoleon actually won.

After him, nation-states made of free citizens, civil codes, recourse to the law (and the metric system) became the norm throughout Europe, despite all futile British efforts to reverse the course of history.

The British attempt to restore old-style tyrannies was an abject failure. It only suceeded in Russia and Spain, which led those unfortunate nations to a long and painful decline with terrible consequences.

Wasn't it reminiscent of the current U.S. neo-con strive to base Pax Americana on outdated Muslim tyrannies like in Saudi Arabia?

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Yours is a very French view my friend.


The US supports the Saudis knowing an even more Islamist oriented regime is likely to take its place.

And we might note that reactionaries like Metternich resisted the British effort to spread the parliamentary system. Britain's aim on the Continent wasn't to stifle liberty but to stifle French hegemony, which was itself spearheaded by a dictator.

Throughout the 19th century afterward Britain supported liberal nationalist revolutions on the Continent except when its own security interests were imperiled.

[Logan]

[Zeus]

For the sake of humanity, Napoleon needed to be defeated so that he did not conquer or become the hegemon of Europe and the world.