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1. Fash-E :windmill_of_friendship: (fash-e@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 16-Dec-2023 01:55:46 JST Fash-E :windmill_of_friendship:

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   @Frondeur I'm not sure, probably eventually. TBH I expect it to be a passive aggressive jewish propaganda weapon against Putin and maybe Trump. Also I heard the cast Algerians and Moroccans to play Frenchmen which is disgusting.
   • Fash-E :windmill_of_friendship: (fash-e@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 16-Dec-2023 01:55:46 JST Fash-E :windmill_of_friendship:

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     @Frondeur I always recommend this to people, they had tens of thousands of soldiers from the red army train in Napoleonic warfare for the battle scenes. youtu.be/bIij-KQ0jYU
   • Fash-E :windmill_of_friendship: (fash-e@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 16-Dec-2023 01:55:46 JST Fash-E :windmill_of_friendship:

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     @Frondeur Made by the same person who made Waterloo (1970)
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   • Frondeur (frondeur@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 16-Dec-2023 01:55:47 JST Frondeur

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     @Fash-E the algorithm has been promoting napoleon videos to me nonstop…im trying to watch some french language ones to see if i can pick up on differences in tone in the way they are covered…

   • Frondeur (frondeur@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 16-Dec-2023 01:55:47 JST Frondeur

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     @Fash-E more importantly are you going to watch the napoleon movie when it comes out…

   • Fash-E :windmill_of_friendship: (fash-e@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 16-Dec-2023 01:55:48 JST Fash-E :windmill_of_friendship:
     In June of 1812, five hundred-thousand men marched into Russia at the back of Emperor Napoleon I. The largest army in European history, comprised of French, Italians, Spanish, Northern and Southern Germans, and the largest cavalry force in the world. The ultimate show of force which was meant to bring Russia to it's knees. In December of that year, twenty thousand starving men left Russia defeated, without a single horse. The Coalition considered Napoleon to be defeated.
     
     Upon his return to Paris, Napoleon wasted no time conscripting an army "Levée en masse" mostly of fresh teenagers. Instead of waiting for the Coalition, Napoleon took the lead, marched back across the border into Germany in 1813, and began winning battles. The Coalition was floored by Napoleons ability to raise a new army so quickly. Arthur Wellington said it was in Napoleon's 1813 campaign that he proved himself to be a true military genius.
     
     The Coalition was forced to adopt "The Trachenberg Plan" in which they would hunt down Napoleon's generals one-by-one, converging to destroy each army group individually, but if they came across Napoleon himself, they would run away. The plan worked, despite Napoleon's constant struggle for victories, he was unable to pursue and destroy routed armies without any cavalry. Napoleon soon became vastly outnumbered and surrounded. With the Coalition closing in around him, Napoleon had no choice but to risk it all in a final pitch battle against all the Coalition's forces.
     
     Leipzig 1813, The climactic battle of the German War of Liberation, also known as The Battle of Nations due to there being 5 monarchs on the field. The Emperor of France, The Emperor of Russia, The Emperor of Austria, The King of Prussia, & The King of Sweden. Outnumbered over 2-1, Napoleon's plan was to breakthrough in the South using the Old Guard and roll around both sides, turning the encirclement. The Coalition narrowly prevented this breakthrough by reinforcing with tens of thousands of men over the course of 3 days, resulting in the bloodiest battle in European history until World War 1.
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