A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.Napoleon Bonaparte
“I am sometimes a fox, but I know how to be a lion.”
French military leader and emperor · 1769 – 1821
Napoleon Bonaparte was a French military leader who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and became Emperor of the French in 1804. His Napoleonic Wars reshaped Europe, and his Napoleonic Code influenced legal systems worldwide. He died in exile on Saint Helena.
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