Tell me about Napoleon, his accomplishments; his revolutionary style of fighting, etc.
He conquered Russia
He managed to mix together the ideas of many military thinkers of the XVIIIth century into a coherent structure, bridging the gap between the military and political in one man without sacrificing the efficiency of one to the whims of the other, and managed to skillfully take advantage of just about every opportunity that was presented to him. Even to the very end, even after the disaster of the Russian campaign, and the later exile to Elba, he managed to make a never seen before return to power, from prisoner, to Emperor once again, for a fleeting Hundred Days, and did not go down until the final defeat at Waterloo.
Oh and he was pretty good at making laws and all that cool Code Civil stuff still partly in use in France today.
La Grande quatre de /his/
>Alexander
>Ceasar
>Napoleon
>Hitler
Was the mid to late 20th century the high point for the United States?
>>2071482
No, the high point is now.
Stupid Europoor. And if you're American, shame on you for not knowing that your country is number 1 right now currently.
>>2071482
It was the mid-1990s.
>>2071485
>(((now)))
If we just cease to exist for eternity, what does it matter anything temporary that happens before or after? Pic unrelated
>implying eternity exists
Check and mate.
>>2071487
What else would you call ceasing of existence? Never existing again?
Exactly. Just do whatever, man, you're free now. Not for real but at least you can think you're free even though you're not. Pretty nice.
to what degree did the turkish conquest of byzantium lead to the constaninople terrorist attacks that happened just now?
>>2071330
Remember anon, any place with a large Islamic populace is bound to have terrorist attacks.
This is a known FACT.
>inb4 /pol/tard accusations
>>2071348
you racist, go back to /pol/
>>2071348
How dare you speak the truth in my safe /his/pace?!
Post rare maps
>>2071253
Maybe this is the wrong board, but does anyone else here find the concept of insurance just mind boggling? I think the concept of assessing risk very interesting. Does anybody here work in Insurance?
Am I weird or is insurance a pretty neat idea? How did it even come about?
>>2071182
Less and less people buy insurance. Another ingenious innovation of the baby boomers.
insurance is for nu-males
>>2071191
>ingenious innovation of the baby boomers
Insurance has been around way longer than that. Also by law you need it for vehicles
If he wasn't a beta manlet, could things have turned out differently, or was collapse pretty much inevitable by his time, after consistent failures in enacting reform?
Too soft on commies and Jews. A few harsh punishments delt out in 1900-1914 would have saved his family and counltess Russian lives not to mention all the death communism caused post great war.
>>2071153
>Too soft on commies and Jews.
This 100%. Tried to play the benevolent ruler much like Louis XVI and it cost him his life.
>>2071153
So he should have went the cruel despot route? It's strange because his wife told him to rule like Ivan the Terrible, whereas he acted like a constitutional monarch with no balls - so in that sense was she right?
>tfw too smart to go around the Alps
>>2071029
Thisn is excessive.
>>2071029
Admit it anon, you made this thread just to post this image.
>>2071029
>too
What is objective truth?
Kids love Trix and it isn't for rabbits.
Math, not much else
>>2070985
Beyond cogito ergo sum its unknowable and therefore irrelevant
I think it's either the HRE or Switzerland.
Would anyone like to argue with me on this or do we agree?
France
native american tribes
>>2070805
France
In no particular order:
USA, France, Great Britain, and Croatia.
Prove me wrong, /his/.
Pro-tip: You can't.
>>2070774
Ante please
One of these things is not like the other
Croatia is irrelevant
Are there any slaves in history who are not just good servants, but indispensable to their masters?
Yasuke, the first black samurai.
How come there wasn't a scene of Atia taking a shit into Posca's mouth?
I'm asking for a friend.
Claudius had two, can't remember their names.
Did American slaveowners have sex with their slaves? What happens to any children?
Mulatto Ubermensch
>>2070748
That study is bullshit, Brazil probably would have a greater admixture of sub-
Saharan African DNA prevalent
among self-described whites than Southern Americans.
Sup /his/, have you read any good board related books lately?
Recently read The Imperial Conspiracy. It's just about the origins of the Japanese monarchy and Emperor Hirohito's life (especially his role in WWII.)
>>2070610
Why was it conspiratorial?
>>2070614
Because the Emperor is portrayed in most accounts of being an innocent tool of his warmongering Cabinet, when in reality he had a huge role in the operations. Plus, we allowed the Emperor to continue to reign after WWII, while we executed basically everybody else.
Lets analyze the validity of Blackstone's Formulation.
>"It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer"
There is strong support for this in the legal community and there seems to be a religious basis for this...
>Abraham drew near, and said, "Will you consume the righteous with the wicked? What if there are fifty righteous within the city? Will you consume and not spare the place for the fifty righteous who are in it?[3] ... What if ten are found there?" He [The Lord] said, "I will not destroy it for the ten's sake."
This is from the part of the bible about the destruction of Sodom
However there have been several notable critics including Otto von Bismarck who actually formulated the inverse saying...
>"it is better that ten innocent men suffer than one guilty man escape."
Other notable critics include Pol Pot and Dick Chaney who was fine with torturing Gitmo inmates who were approximately 25% innocent and said he would do it again.
So...
Is the formulation legitimate and if so on what basis, if not on what basis?
Is there an actual ratio such as 1:10 or 1:1000 or is it simply an expression of the spirit of the law. E.g. we should seek to protect the accused from speculation and circumstantial evidence among other legal pitfalls.
Finally, for whom is it better. Phrased another way, does society benefit more from the protection of the innocent or from protection from the guilty?
Wikipedia Article
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackstone's_formulation
>>2070565
>Dick Chaney
lol
it's not about math. it is, first, about the cruelty of an innocent man being punished unjustly.
second, it's about how a defendant is viewed under the eyes of the law. if the bias is in favor of the defendant (innocent until proven guilty, similar to guilty men going free) it takes power away from the state. if the opposite is true, you're merely hoping that the man is guilty (which is the implication from jailing innocent men), it makes it easier to put people like civil dissidents in jail because you're basically 'connecting the suspicion dots' instead of providing irrefutable evidence. the reason for this is an American hatred of kangaroo courts installed in england at the time.
third, an important factor of the law is reciprocity. your punishment should be equal to your crime, because this satisfies human/primate conceptions of fairness. I hope that you can see the difference between:
>10 innocent men and 1 guilty man in prison
>10 guilty men and 1 innocent man in prison
which is to say that a denial of Blackstone boils down to innocent people paying for the crimes of a minority, rather than a minority benefiting from the good of a majority. if you're going to be assumed guilty, I personally believe that that inspires crime and inspires an authoritarian government.
this is similar to a sentiment of Franklin, something about the government not trusting citizens with guns. your government must display faith in its citizens for its citizens to respect it.
>>2070565
bumping because /his/ needs more law threads
>>2070841
any JDs browsing /his/ rn?