One question about.... Napoleon
Hi Everyone, Starting the first of what will be a series of threads here. If you could only ever ask ONE question about Napoleon, what would it be, and why?
(Hopefully someone will try to answer that question for you - you can post more than one question if you want!)
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I'd agree. Care should be taken not to overplay the impact of the Peninsular War, which some, particularly British, historiography is inclined to do, but it's certainly a mistake to dismiss it as a sideshow. It was a wound steadily bleeding him of vital resources. The scale of the numbers needed to maintain control in the region are shown by the scale of the French defeat when men were pulled out to bolster the 1813 army. That was only one of many reasons for what happened at Vittoria, but it still played it's part.