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The Little Corporal ??

Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2004 6:33 pm
by dpstafford
Who wrote the front page article referring to Napoleon as "The Little Corporal".

Bonaparte was never a corporal. Corsican, maybe. But not a corporal.

RE: The Little Corporal ??

Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2004 6:59 pm
by Malagant
I do believe his troops gave him the term of endearment "Petit Caporal" : The Little Corporal.

RE: The Little Corporal ??

Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2004 7:36 pm
by dpstafford
It would seem so. I had thought the writer was confusing him with a certain German from a later century.