Michel Ney

Maybe not the best general but he was a savage and pretty cool.

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Yep
Faggots like Wellington would never have taken part in musket and bayonet combat on the first line with the men like Ney did

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I'm Michel Ney, and welcome to Jackass

*charges cavalry at fully formed squares without infantry support*

I mean, he ordered his own execution.

That takes enormous balls.

>>2493005
Basically the entire french general staff by the tail end of the first coalition were hardass motherfuckers, and this did not change throughout the revolutionary and napoleonic wars.
>>2492512
But of course they did not cease to be frenchman, and took the whole elan thing a little bit too far.

the absolute madman

*throws Waterloo for a suicide attempt*

>He's embarassing us here, just like at Jena!
t. Napoleon

>>2492052
Yes; however he wasn´t a great military leader.
Badass individual nonetheless.

>>2492052
All the fucking Marshals under Napoleon are such cool people to read about.
>Jean lannes who got hit in the legs by a cannonball and didn't want to worry anyone and when he died Napoleon cried over his body
>Davout who beat a Prussian army twice his size
>Berthier who despite supporting Napoleon, helped nobles like Louis's aunts escape from the mob
I need to find a good book that details their lives and personalities.

>>2493328
Wikipedia itself does That decently. Maybe not the English version though.

>>2492052
Undoubtebly.
Ignore the Waterloo memes; him doing things differently would not have had any more chances to defeat the enemy as his charges did.

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Wellington was just no match for Ney

Why the fuck didn't he spike the cannons?

>>2493604
Wellington gets way too much credit, because he was on the winning side.

I only remember him for his foolish misuse of nappy's cavalry

>>2492295

just capital!

>>2493604
>Wellington was just no match for Ney
Except Wellington cold keep an army in the field during the 10 years peninsular war, and we all know the French cant do that

>>2495318

kept it in the fridge did he?

>>2495318
Is that why he ran away from Napoleon at almost every turn, or why he could barely defeat an outnumbered and undersupplied French force over a 6 year period?

>>2495346
A good general picks his fights, thats why he didnt invade russia during winter

>>2495356
>he didnt invade russia during winter
It's a good thing that Napoleon didn't, either

>>2492067
Neither would Napoopan you dope.

>>2495453
Napoleon was a monarch, it's already impressive enough he was on the battlefield
His British equivalent was Goerge III, not Wellington

>>2492052
>How The Fuck Are Ditches Real Hahahaha Nigga Just Keep Galloping Like Nigga Jump Over It Haha

>>2495453
What about Arcole ?

>>2495318
yeah, thanks to Rotschild money and the fact he dind't have to fight the entire spanish population
nothing remotely impressive

>>2495453
>what is the bridge of arcole
He literally did.