Why is Napoleon regarded as one of the greatest military geniuses of all time, considering he lost the war he started?
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France would have gone with a whimper not a bang if not for Napoleon. It was their last shot to regain their superpower status. Terrible diplomacy by the kings and later terrible diplomacy by revolutionaries pitted every significant power against France. They were also broke. They had no right to perform as well as they did. Some of it is pre-Napoleon, revolutionary France proved a tough nut to crack already by 1791. But Napoleon amped it up to 11. His Italian campaign alone is legendary enough that he could dissappear after that and he’d still be taught at military schools(this is not my opinion, I don’t know what they teach at military schools).
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