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The short answer was that he didn't. Napoleon, while imprisoned on Elba, was not far away from the continent of mainland Europe which he had dominated for the past 2 decades. On resuming power in Paris he decided his best option was to attack his enemies piecemeal, Britain, Prussia, Austria & Russia. & while he might well have defeated any of these foes in single combat, if two join together.... he meets his Waterloo..........It doesnt really amount to much to blame Grouchy for the defeat there, Napoleon was the Emperor, Napoleon gets the spoils....the 'what ifs' of the campaign, a splendid vignette of 3 months culminating in 1 day of tremendous carnage, are too nemerous to consider briefly. Put succinctly the British were too good in dogged defence to be defeated by the crude frontal assault that the Emperor used on the day. 'They came on in the old style....' & Wellington admitted he was never so near to defeat. If Blucher does not appear at Waterloo then all else does not apply...Previously Ney had had chances at Quatre Bras & Napoleon at Ligny needed to be sure of where the beaten Prussians had retreated to. From the point of view of the French both of these combats sow the seeds of defeat for the French, but it was undoubtedly a close run thing..........
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The hundred days war
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Hundred Days' War happened on 1978-02-07.
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An inexact question. The cause of the Hundred Days campaign in which the battle took place was the return of Napoleon Bonaparte from exile on the island of Elba.
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seven hundred thousand
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Claude Monet was born and he was the founder of impressionist.
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Do you need to have total war 3 for napoleon total war?
No Napoleon is a game itself no expansion.
I need Password for napoleon total war?
Because I cant play Napoleon total war
What was the deciding factor in the successful defeat of the French by the English?
Are you talking about the Hundred Years' War, the French Indian War, the defeat of Napoleon or any one of the colonial wars in Africa or Asia? Please specify.
