Victory belongs to the most persevering.
In war, the moral is to the physical as three is to one.
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The French emperor whose military genius reshaped
The French emperor whose military genius reshaped Europe and whose innovations in warfare, law, and administration defined the modern era (1769-1821). Napoleon Bonaparte won sixty of his seventy battles, crowned himself emperor, and fell from absolute power twice — leaving behind both a continental legal system and an eternal case study in the limits of individual genius.
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