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Originally posted by Great Big Stees
Yes, Napoleon got stuck on Elba and Custer....well he sure got "stuck" with arrows.
Wasn't Napoleon the French dude that got shot in 1666 or whatever year it was? Wow...History Lessons at School...And can I just say to Mr Whatever the (censored) he was called... (censored) off you (censored) 😀😀😀

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Originally posted by VinceNoir9
Wasn't Napoleon the French dude that got shot in 1666 or whatever year it was? Wow...History Lessons at School...And can I just say to Mr Whatever the (censored) he was called... (censored) off you (censored) 😀😀😀
I think they talk about Napoleon, Missouri, Geography lessons...

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Originally posted by Ponderable
I think they talk about Napoleon, Missouri, Geography lessons...
I thank you kind Sir... *salute*

Napoleon Bonaparte was born on 15 August 1769 in Corsica into a gentry family. Educated at military school, he was rapidly promoted and in 1796, was made commander of the French army in Italy, where he forced Austria and its allies to make peace. In 1798, Napoleon conquered Ottoman-ruled Egypt in an attempt to strike at British trade routes with India. He was stranded when his fleet was destroyed by the British at the Battle of the Nile.

France now faced a new coalition - Austria and Russia had allied with Britain. Napoleon returned to Paris where the government was in crisis. In a coup d'etat in November 1799, Napoleon became first consul. In 1802, he was made consul for life and two years later, emperor. He oversaw the centralisation of government, the creation of the Bank of France, the reinstatement of Roman Catholicism as the state religion and law reform with the Code Napoleon.

In 1800, he defeated the Austrians at Marengo. He then negotiated a general European peace which established French power on the continent. In 1803, Britain resumed war with France, later joined by Russia and Austria. Britain inflicted a naval defeat on the French at Trafalgar (1805) so Napoleon abandoned plans to invade England and turned on the Austro-Russian forces, defeating them at Austerlitz later the same year. He gained much new territory, including annexation of Prussian lands which ostensibly gave him control of Europe. The Holy Roman Empire was dissolved, Holland and Westphalia created, and over the next five years, Napoleon's relatives and loyalists were installed as leaders (in Holland, Westphalia, Italy, Naples, Spain and Sweden).

In 1810, he had his childless marriage to Josephine de Beauharnais annulled and married the daughter of the Austrian emperor in the hope of having an heir. A son, Napoleon, was born a year later.

The Peninsular War began in 1808. Costly French defeats over the next five years drained French military resources. Napoleon's invasion of Russia in 1812 resulted in a disastrous retreat. The tide started to turn in favour of the allies and in March 1814, Paris fell. Napoleon went into exile on the Mediterranean island of Elba. In March 1815 he escaped and marched on the French capital. The Battle of Waterloo ended his brief second reign. The British imprisoned him on the remote Atlantic island of St Helena, where he died on 5 May 1821.

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far be it from anyone to say anything but for the benefit of the young ones is there a community therapy group you have not tried or can you go back to (censored) on a big (censored) (censored), in order to stop talking through it,you (censored) (censored)(censored) nefarious (censored)stick 😞

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Indiscriminate inclusion of excessive substance in recent posts.

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recent?

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Yup.

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any substance is too much

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nothing in moderation?

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Originally posted by gareth cobb
nothing in moderation?
yes, never

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Originally posted by coquette
yes, never
If I would quote that you should never say never would it count as undue substance?

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Originally posted by Ponderable
If I would quote that you should never say never would it count as undue substance?
If sticking to the facts I'd say maybe.

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unfortunately it is never appropriate please remove from this thread

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okay, then, always never

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always never might be an oxymoron

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