The Day's Dumpster Fire
A small little podcast where your hosts, Kara and Ed, look at historical and not so historical cases where we don't celebrate humanity's success but its most fantastic failures. There are always lessons to be learned in failure and humanity has run amuck with fool proof plans that immediately go sideways and fall apart shortly after executing those plans. Join us as we scour the "human-verse" in search for the most poignant, and often hilarious, failures and try to pull out what can be learned from these failures.
The Day's Dumpster Fire
Episode 38. Napoleon Bonaparte's Greatest Blunder Fire Part 1
In this episode, Ed opens the book on one of history's most iconic military leaders, Napoleon Bonaparte. Napoleon is most famous for his wars that were so uniquely titled that they became known as the "Napoleonic Wars." For most of his reign, it was wondered if Napoleon could ever be defeated!
And was he gloriously defeated!
In part 1 of a 2 part series, Ed looks at the rise of Napoleon from his early years struggling to climb the ranks in French schools as a kid who was Italian to his massive victory against the British at Toulon. We get to see what separated Napoleon from the generations of ineffective leaders who did nothing more than eat fancy foods and sink France into crippling debt. Eventually, Napoleon would crown himself the emperor of France, and quickly took over most of eastern Europe including Austria, Prussia, Italy, and last but not least, Russia
In part 1 Napoleon quickly established himself as a person who can get stuff done, but more effectively as a military visionary who seemed undefeatable in battle. Then in part 2 his beef with Britain involved his beef with Russia and Napoleon raised the largest army in Europe's history and vowed to put Russia in its place once and for all in what would become one of the greatest dumpster fires in history.
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