How was Napoleon able to conquer so much so fast? What set the

manlet rage

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>>2724949
Manlets are the master race.

>>2724943
he was good at cannons and used them against civilians so they eventually just decided to listen to him and it turns out mass conscription and national fervor is OP also he was just popular and knew how to btfo hard

>>2724943
French Soldiers carried supplies with them.

>>2724943
Meh, Basically the French showed up with a more flexible organization, with enough officers of merit/ability than Austrians or Prussians. Then he pissed a lot away in Spain and threw everything away in Russia.

Read "Napoleon: How He Did It" by Baron Fain.
Also "The Campaigns of Napoleon" by David Chandler.
Also "With Musket, Cannon and Sword: Battle Tactics of Napoleon and His Enemies" by Brent Nosworthy.

>>2724981
Ty for the recommendations

>>2724943
They rushed towards death, while the traditional way of fighting was oriented towards very low casuality battles

They created a new type of war with their way of fighting and also BTFO every practicioner of the old ways

>>2724981
If you can find it, Soldiers of the French Revolution by Alan Forrest is also good.

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>>2724943

Because just like Hitler, he only had 1 ball, a hypospadias cock, and last but not least, POOPED in his PANTS!!!!!!!

>>2725098
Why does no one care?

I was amazed when I found out it took seven coalitions to stop him.

>>2725640
>learn from the *nglo media that he was stopped by the British at Waterloo
>turns out that he legit was emperor of most of Europe for, no joke, like 10 years and it took multiple coalitions to stop him and the only reason the last coalition stopped him is because the Prussians betrayed him
The *nglos always try and make him out to be a sociopathic monster but Nappy LITERALLY did nothing wrong

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Basically all mode of the thinking was based on roman thought that infantry line up the center and cavalry flank and shock. You always protect your flank because thats where the cavalry will be attacking you trying to get around to surround and break your line.

Napoleon had cannons and massed them and broke the meta so to speak. All the austrians including Archduke Charles, who was the best text book general in the business, fought by the book. They protected their flanks hard and left the center relatively weak.

Almost every battle went the same.
Napoleon would mass the batteries on the enemy center to weaken it and then send his infantry right through the middle in a series of hammer blows until it broke and then fight the two sides one at a time.

This worked because orders were relayed by foot via couriers. Once the center was broken chaos would break loose because only one side of the battlefield could get orders nad know what was going on, and that side was getting wreked by the french while the other side sat paralyzed or in complete chaos waiting for orders.

Once one side was routed he would turn the infantry to the other and mop up what was left.

Tolstoy actually illistrates this in War and Peace when Prince Andrew is a courier for Russian high command at Austerlitz and is charged with delivering orders to the far side. He ends up setting out on foot right when Napoleon breaks the center and gets caught and injured in the chaos.