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But, but... Wellington: "I used to say of him [Napoleon] that his presence on the field made the difference of forty thousand men." Asked who was the greatest general of his day, Wellington replied: 'In this age, in past ages, in any age, Napoleon'.

To put things into perspective. Wellington had only one food named after him, "Beef Wellington". Napoleon had two named after him, "Napoleon Brandy" and "Bigarreau Napoleon Cherry". So just based on this scientific info it backs the argument Napoleon was better loved and thus the best General of all times. OH, add to that Wellingtons words above a slam dunk for Naploleon..

warspite1

Nope. You've obviously never visited a kitchen before Zorch. You've seriously never heard of Eggs Wellingon? Spaghetti Wellington? Wellington and chips? Chips and Wellington? Roast Wellington? Strange....

I assume that his contribution to the culinary world is akin to the British contribution to the rest of the culinary world? To whit: boiled. So boiled fish and chips? Boiled roast? Boiled eggs? Boiled spaghetti? The latter two aren't that bad, come to think of it.

ORIGINAL: warspite1
and we are all of one mind.....

...crazy. [:'(]

ORIGINAL: Zovs

Every one worth their salt knows it takes 10 Sherman’s to knock out 1 Napoleon!

France could have won the war if they built more Napoleons then the Germans tigers or panthers, sheeeesh

warspite1

Seriously? The Napoleon was rubbish, it was small, rubbish in the snow, and hot weather, automatically selected reverse gear when it saw a British tank and had a very, very small, inadequate gun.

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ORIGINAL: warspite1

ORIGINAL: Zap




To put things into perspective. Wellington had only one food named after him, "Beef Wellington". Napoleon had two named after him, "Napoleon Brandy" and "Bigarreau Napoleon Cherry". So just based on this scientific info it backs the argument Napoleon was better loved and thus the best General of all times. OH, add to that Wellingtons words above a slam dunk for Naploleon..

warspite1

Nope. You've obviously never visited a kitchen before Zorch. You've seriously never heard of Eggs Wellingon? Spaghetti Wellington? Wellington and chips? Chips and Wellington? Roast Wellington? Strange....

I assume that his contribution to the culinary world is akin to the British contribution to the rest of the culinary world? To whit: boiled. So boiled fish and chips? Boiled roast? Boiled eggs? Boiled spaghetti? The latter two aren't that bad, come to think of it.

warspite1

Yeah... they could catch on. Boiled ham too.

Don't forget all the positive phrases:

Wellcome
Wellness
Wellth
Wellbeing
Wellintentioned
Wellherewegoagain
Wellbeseeingyou
and, Wellwellwell

The only thing on Napoleon.
Napkin
Napoftheearth
Naponese

RR

ORIGINAL: warspite1

ORIGINAL: Zovs

Every one worth their salt knows it takes 10 Sherman’s to knock out 1 Napoleon!

France could have won the war if they built more Napoleons then the Germans tigers or panthers, sheeeesh

warspite1

Seriously? The Napoleon was rubbish, it was small, rubbish in the snow, and hot weather, automatically selected reverse gear when it saw a British tank and had a very, very small, inadequate gun.

Ah...forgot those tiny facts...well if they built 40,000 of them things maybe, just maybe...Chile would have revolted and stopped shipping bananas...who knows then...

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ORIGINAL: warspite1

ORIGINAL: Zovs

Every one worth their salt knows it takes 10 Sherman’s to knock out 1 Napoleon!

France could have won the war if they built more Napoleons then the Germans tigers or panthers, sheeeesh

warspite1

Seriously? The Napoleon was rubbish, it was small, rubbish in the snow, and hot weather, automatically selected reverse gear when it saw a British tank and had a very, very small, inadequate gun.

Ah...forgot those tiny facts...well if they built 40,000 of them things maybe, just maybe...Chile would have revolted and stopped shipping bananas...who knows then...

warspite1

Indeed, and there are no facts more tiny than the gun on Napoleon....

Considering the vast majority of sports teams have the blue color a part of their uniforms. I mean who has red and grey(Brits) as a uniform color, practically no one. It seems the whole world has been inspired by Napoleon Army uniform color.
As you will take note even the Swiss Guard were inspired to take blue in their uniforms. Evidence is overwelming.

Well some Johnny Reb units had red and gray.

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Considering the vast majority of sports teams have the blue color a part of their uniforms. I mean who has red and grey(Brits) as a uniform color, practically no one. It seems the whole world has been inspired by Napoleon Army uniform color.
As you will take note even the Swiss Guard were inspired to take blue in their uniforms. Evidence is overwelming.

warspite1

Grey?

Anyway, its a good point. I mean no one has ever heard of AC Milan, Arsenal, Bayern Munich, Liverpool or Manchester United.......

....which actually got me thinking. How many successful football clubs play in Dark Blue? Looking at the major European leagues

In England of the top 6 there is Chelsea and previously there was Everton - so only 1 top team at anyone time. Of the rest of the top 6 - 3 play in Red (as named above), 1 in Austrian white and 1 in light blue that I couldn't imagine any soldier wearing

In Spain neither of the big two clubs play in dark blue - although Barcelona couldn't make up their mind and play in red and blue, while Real Madrid also adopt the Austrian approach

In France PSG are also red and blue. Of the historically successful clubs Lyon and Marseilles are Austrian White and St Etienne Russian Green.

In Germany the two top teams are Bayern (red) and Dortmund (Spanish yellow)

In Italy, Inter play in dark blue and black, AC Milan as mentioned wear red and black and Juventus white and black

...mmmmm I'm not seeing a lot of homage to Napoleon here - but quite a bit to Wellington [:)]

I think one get's a better idea of Wellington and his greatness from this historical 'fly on the wall documentary". This is actual footage of the Duke's visit to the palace in 1805.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clM1i88s-7Q

For football the Tampa Bay Buccaneers – red, grey & black

Yeah, but did he mean 40,000 Frenchmen or 40,000 British for the advantage?

Probably more modern Frenchmen, they just can't seem to fight that well anymore. Well, at least most of them. The paratroopers do okay, probably since they are trained to be dropped off and have no place to retreat to. Unfortunately, most of the Frenchmen ended up using a different salute where you raise both hand up with the palms forward. Their new flag appears to be rectangular, in the upper left there is a white cross on a white background, the rest of the flag is white horizontal stripes alternating with white horizontal stripes.

If I remember correctly, the US Continental Army during the troubles with the United Kingdom had blue uniforms. So the French Army copied the US Army in that, but probably nothing else except for the Free French in World War II and afterwards when they were beggars . . .

Speaking of Napoleon food items:

Description

Thin, crispy puff pastry with layers of vanilla custard and whipped cream topped with flakes of puff pastry and powdered sugar.

https://www.portosbakery.com/items/napoleon-individual/

Hello, I'm a long-term forum user who has been inactive for a while. Thought Id say hello as part of my way to collect the 10 posts needed to post in the game forums. I'm very much enjoying TOAW IV right now.

You got 7 more to go, keep posting...

TOAW IV is great warts and all.

Agreed - it's a flawed masterpiece. The glitches and idiosyncrasies annoyed me a bit at the start but it's now just a part of the charm!

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To get your post count up, you could always comment on this thread:

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Just don't strain your eyeballs!

I'm at work - I think I'll pass on that thread for now!

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