Thread 17999049

He seized control of the government and illegitimately named himself emperor. He led dozens of campaigns of conquest without real justification. He plundered and parasitized defeated nations. He threatened and extorted his own allies. He constantly broke political agreements. He threatened anyone who didn't follow him and his political worldview with war. He implemented massive military conscription with threats of imprisonment and torture for those who refused.

I don't think anyone would dispute the characterization of Napoleon as a military leader. Arguably he's THE model of a warlord. Oh well, semantics and emotions.

Because he was an enemy of Germany just like other warlords such as Macedonian Alexander the Great who was a Slavic ancestor for all Russians Magyars and Bulgars

>>17999054
Nope, at worst he is seen as a dictator but never as a warlord similar to an arab or african.

>>17999059
Semantics and emotions.

>>17999049 (OP)
Don't believe in british propaganda , he only defend france.

Most of Napoleon's wars were declarations of war by France's enemies.

It's not Napoleon's fault that he changed these wars from defensive to offensive, since France's enemies had previously declared war on Napoleon.

>>17999049 (OP)
He was cool fella, gave my country back and made sure metric system is commonly used in Europe.

>>17999049 (OP)
>Why isn't Napoleon considered a warlord?
He is tho

>>17999049 (OP)
The British called him worse

>>17999085
Prior wars were defensive but he got too big for his britches when he went for Spain and Russia. If he stopped there perhaps his empire would be still standing today, but he couldn't stop because he's Napoleon.

>>17999085
Don't believe Napoleonian propaganda, the French republic declared war first against Austria.

>>17999049 (OP)
>He led dozens of campaigns of conquest without real justification.

Name four

>>17999323
Spain
Russia
Waterloo
Portugal

>>17999358
>Waterloo

self-defense after the world declared war on him

>>17999049 (OP)
He is?
Like who doesnt consider him one?

>>17999451
self defense?........
Like if a murderer breaks out of prison and then starts stabbing people in protest, like its a real stretch to consider that self defense.
Here ill add egypt, because waterloo wasnt really an invasion either way.

>>17999049 (OP)
probably timing. he came right after they deposed the king, was a supporter of free poland and killed the german menace.

>>17999163
you're just iberian or a rape baby of theirs and butthurt he taught spain their place

>>17999641
>gets btfo in a guerilla war, loses the Spanish throne and has to retreat en masse
Yeah he sure showed them.

>>17999691
he took your shitty empire away from you moorman

>>17999358
Being pedantic here but Russia was not a war of conquest, he wasn't trying to take any land from them. He should have, but he wasn't

>>17999693
I'm not even European you doofus

>>17999503
Egypt was under the rule of the Directory, not Napoleon's

>>17999716
no but you're a latinx hispanista

>>17999736
Try again Eurotrash. Go import more Muslims

>>17999747
sure thing paco
i know a brown mongrel when i see one

>>17999750
You're definitely brown yourself. How about you make like Napoleon and exile yourself, faggot

>>17999759
kek definitely a projecting spic
always butthurt france btfo'd his moor rape baby rapists

>>17999763
Keep seething over events that happened two centuries ago you mutt. Your fit of autism has amused me enough. Now shoo!

>>17999778
do you know which tribe your indio ancestors are from, mongrel?

>>17999049 (OP)
>He seized control of the government and illegitimately named himself emperor.
He co-operated with parts of the government to remove parts of the government that had been shitting all over the constitution and taking great pains to fart in the general direction of the electorate. This had been a pretty normal operation for the government ever since Robespierre lost his head.
>and illegitimately named himself emperor.
The army was the only completely enfranchised section of the voting-age population. If they elect somebody to be their Emperor, it's the most representative election possible in France back then.

>>17999216
Also this. They went ahead and declared war first. The Girondins 100% believed that the revolution should be exported. Never mind that the french bourgeois anti-catholic atheism wasn't even popular in France.

>>17999049 (OP)

What "ism" was Napoleon and are there any of them still around today?

>>17999873
Bonapartism.
The last one was his nephew Napoleon III

In modern usage, warlord is applied to figures in chaotic regions. It implies illegitimacy, lack of state structure, and rule by personal force.