| Tango01 | 15 Dec 2016 3:20 p.m. PST |
""This soldier, I realized, must have had friends at home and in his regiment; yet he lay there deserted by all except his dog. I looked on, unmoved, at battles which decided the future of nations. Tearless, I had given orders which brought death to thousands. Yet here I was stirred, profoundly stirred, stirred to tears. And by what? By the grief of one dog. Napoleon Bonaparte, on finding a dog beside the body of his dead master, licking his face and howling, on a moonlit field after a battle. Napoleon was haunted by this scene until his own death."…
From here
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 Mserafin  | 15 Dec 2016 6:05 p.m. PST |
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| Piquet Rules | 15 Dec 2016 6:21 p.m. PST |
I knew that I liked Napoleon. |
| JMcCarroll | 15 Dec 2016 6:35 p.m. PST |
If Napoleon was a cat person I wouldn't play. |
 piper909 | 16 Dec 2016 12:42 a.m. PST |
But didn't Josephine's little dog bite him on their wedding night, or some similar occasion? Napoleon was notoriously afraid of cats. |
 deadhead | 16 Dec 2016 2:26 a.m. PST |
I thought it was rabbits that made him flee…….and I do mean without an "a" on the end, as carried by dogs…….…well documented. |
| 42flanker | 16 Dec 2016 4:38 a.m. PST |
I take it 'rabbit' isn't a euphemism. |
| olicana | 16 Dec 2016 4:52 a.m. PST |
July 1807, shortly after the treaty of Tilsit was signed, Napoleon was attacked by up to 3000 rabbits which climbed up his legs and coat and chased him to his coach where the assault continued. Chandler says "with a finer understanding of Napoleonic strategy than most of his generals, the rabbit horde divided into two wings and poured around the flanks of the party and headed for the imperial coach." I wonder if that was the inspiration for the Python Holy Grail sketch. |
| Jcfrog | 16 Dec 2016 5:47 a.m. PST |
Men can be be good, dogs can be bad. |
| von Winterfeldt | 16 Dec 2016 6:17 a.m. PST |
in the 1813 campaign he tried to shot a dog which dared to bark at thim, his pistol failed, so who says he liked dogs? |
| Tango01 | 16 Dec 2016 10:49 a.m. PST |
Maybe it was a Prussian dog…? (smile)
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| Zargon | 16 Dec 2016 2:40 p.m. PST |
Tyrants and Saints love dogs and or cats, its the ones who cannot love that I truly fear, for they can only love themselves and care for none but themselves.
Who do you think were truly that terrible? |
| vonLoudon | 14 Jan 2017 8:57 a.m. PST |
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| Gazzola | 14 Jan 2017 11:17 a.m. PST |
By John 54 So did Churchill…er, ever try doing some research before making a fool of yourself. LOL |
| Gazzola | 14 Jan 2017 11:26 a.m. PST |
I'd be interested to know what would the courageous members of this website do if they were charged by thousands of 'hungry' rabbits? |
| Gazzola | 14 Jan 2017 11:36 a.m. PST |
Tango01 Good point. Unless it was actually Blucher in disguise. I mean. he was known to be barking mad at times, wasn't he? And I don't know about you, but if a dog barks at me, my first thought would not be to give it a biscuit. LOL |
| le Grande Quartier General | 14 Jan 2017 12:24 p.m. PST |
We all love Dogs, and certain cats, and other humans of a kind nature- Don't we? |
| Tango01 | 14 Jan 2017 12:37 p.m. PST |
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| 4th Cuirassier | 14 Jan 2017 6:33 p.m. PST |
I like dogs, but I couldn't eat a whole one. |
| forwardmarchstudios | 02 Jun 2017 9:49 p.m. PST |
Charles liked goats?
I knew I liked him. This is quickly turing into reddit/aww….. |
| janner | 03 Jun 2017 9:43 a.m. PST |
I'm not convinced. We've just welcomed in a new Labrador to the family, but Napoleon didn't send a card or anything… |
