Invading Russia. Scope ( size ) of 'front' and weather also.
Canada
The Prussian military crushed him and destroyed his throne. After all, it was said that most states had an army, but the Prussian army had a state. Napoleon the third was going up against a military machine. However, his predecessor, Napoleon Bonaparte the first, conquered Prussia with ease.
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Germany never conquered Moscow in the second world war. In fact this was Adolf Hitlers big mistake in the war , because he tried to invade the U.S.S.R in the cold winter and so lost the war.
big and fatal mistake
You've made a big mistake, mister.
transgression.
Napoleon Whiting
Trying to invade Pennsylvania in July 1863 - according to Longstreet, one of the Generals blamed for the defeat at Gettysburg. Otherwise his strategies and tactics were very sound. His basic mistake was to throw in his lot with the Confederates in the first place. If he'd stayed in the U.S.Army, the war would not have lasted long.
Albania and Greece. They succeeded in colonizing Albania. It was one of their two big Colonies in the Empire. the other one was Ethiopia.
He couldn't get enough big boats.