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The Fall of Napoleon and the Congress of Vienna'. It was, according to the historian Andrew Roberts’s epically scaled new biography, Napoleon: A Life, both the ultimate triumph of the self-made man, an outsider from Corsica who rose to the. Andrew Roberts presents an original, highly revisionist view of the relationship between the two greatest captains of their age. Utilizamos cookies y herramientas similares que son necesarias para permitirte comprar, mejorar tus experiencias de compra y proporcionar nuestros servicios, según se detalla en nuestro Aviso de cookies. Andrew Roberts presents an original, highly revisionist view of the relationship between the two greatest captains of their age. Napoleon's Fatal March on Moscow' and 'Rites of Peace. Opposing him was fellow historian Adam Zamoyski, author of, among other books, '1812. Was he a military genius and father of the French state, or a blundering nonentity who created his own enduring myth? Was his goal of uniting the European continent under a common political system the forerunner of the modern ‘European dream’? Or was he an incompetent despot, a warning from history of the dangers of overarching grand plans? Championing Napoleon was historian Andrew Roberts, author of, among other books, 'Napoleon the Great', 'Napoleon and Wellington', and 'Waterloo: Napoleon's Last Gamble'. one fit for nothing better than fighting in India), and boasting that he’d win the battle by lunchtime. How should we remember Napoleon, the man of obscure Corsican birth who rose to become emperor of the French and briefly master of Europe? In 2014, as the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo approached, Intelligence Squared brought together two of Britain’s finest historians to debate how we should assess Napoleon’s life and legacy. A dual biography of the greatest opposing generals of their age who ultimately became fixated on one another. I’d long wondered why, since the Emperor Napoleon was clearly a genius, he had so badly underestimated the Duke of Wellington on the morning of the battle of Waterloo, writing him off as ‘a mere sepoy general’ (i.e.

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