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Napoleon Bonaparte
Indreams:
Sorry, I'm not too good at Polish history,
Polish-Muscovite War, Polish-Lithuania defeats Russians and Swedish. Polish troops occupy Moscow. Right?
I just looked it up. How come they don't teach this in my History classes?
Stupid Eurocentrism always ignoring the non-French, non-British, and non-American history.
Schwalbe:
We conquered Moscow, but were fucking stupid, and lost it not-so-long-time-later.
Imagine:
Every nation is going to teach history most relevant to them.
I doubt there's as much Euro history being taught in, say, South-east Asia.
Indreams:
True true.
Can nobody hold on to Moscow but the Russians?
Anyways, to get back on topic, what do you guys think Napoleon's downfall was?
His invasion of Russia? His attempt to reign in Haiti? His wars and debts? His arrogance? Or the fact that he didn't use airships?
Cause I think it was the airships.
Kamoba:
It's actually very polite to say nations teach by relevence, it's a very biased use of the teaching system to ignore a lot of historical events, everything I learnt about WWII was all England and German, if you ignored geographic locations you'd have not known it was a world war...
American schooling often twists and hides many historical events... Many countries do it, even if it's for the 'right' reasons history should not have chapters hidden or else how can a people learn from the mistakes of it's predecessors?
As for Napoleons failing, that'll boil down to his lack of technological advancements (aka airships) is what done it, teas naught to do with Russian Winter ;)
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