Retreat from Russia in 1812, when they pounced on him with terrible fervor. Napoleon had allowed petty emotion--the choice to humiliate, revenge himself, and force obedience--to contaminate his method. Had he stayed focused on his long-time period interests, he might have regarded that it turned into better to weaken Prussia and Austria psychologically instead of bodily--to seduce them with reputedly beneficiant phrases, reworking them into devoted allies instead of envious satellites. Many in Prussia had initially seen Napoleon as a extraordinary liberator. Had he simplest stored Prussia as a happy best friend, he might have survived the
debacle in Russia and there might have been no Waterloo.
Learn the lesson nicely: first rate plans and piled-up conquests aren't enough.
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