Victory or defeat radiation Waterloo（三）

War can only be described as simple, but this war involves the fate of the two historical figures should not be avoided - that is, leaders of both confrontation: Napoleon and Wellington.

Incidentally, Wellington and Napoleon is actually the same age who were born in 1769. Differentiated, the Wellington was born in England and Ireland, both the giants aristocratic descent. While Napoleon was born in the Mediterranean island of Corsica, Ajaccio town - that was almost up and Napoleon into Italian, and in the pregnant mother of 3 months before Napoleon, originally under the jurisdiction of Genoa Corsica Caibei sold French authorities. Although Napoleon considered the Italian aristocratic ancestors, but his father had been a generation Family Decline.

Napoleon's military genius and political strongman who is distinguished resume -

23-year-old soldier on independence, has captured the royalist bastion of Toulon, the Jacobins popular support;

26-year-old was appointed commander of the French army in Italy;

28-year-old was appointed military commander of the French Republic, the East, an expedition in Egypt;

30-year-old governor by Brumaire coup to overthrow the government, set up three power;

33, issued the "Constitution of the Republican years," the provisions of the French Republic, Napoleon was ruling for life. Then formally issued the "Civil Code of the French Republic" (the "Napoleonic Code";

35-year-old "Republican years of the Constitution," declared the Republic of France to the French Empire, Napoleon as emperor;

- Since then, the face of the British, General, Russia, Austria, the Netherlands, the West and other European Zhu Qiang 7 turns consisting of anti-French allies against Napoleon calmly, and the once illustrious military exploits ... ...

When Napoleon Wal earthquake, the British island of Arthur - Wellesley (Duke of Wellington's real name) also walked to his own illustrious life beckons. Taught by the famous British children of the nobility school Eton College, then went to France to study military. 18-year-old joined the army. As smart and skilled, and his promotion is also considered fast.

Wellesley, the first independent command, but when the army has 34 years of age. That year, the people of France Napoleon's life has received the ruling ... ...

In 1803, Napoleon twice and Coalition forces conducted a bump, the two sides for the time being to enter a period of relative interval. Being at this time, but in the Wellesley territory where his brother played in the famous battle of his life - A Saye campaign. At that time India was a British colony, and his brother Richard - the presence of the Marquis Wellesley, Governor General of India. In that battle, nearly 1 in 6 Wellesley to the strength of weakness, beat Wang Jun, the Indian soil. The war situation was very interesting, when the Wellesley soils found in India, when Wang Jun, the other did not find the British. Wellesley aware of the enemy many times their own number, by common sense should choose retreat or avoid its edge. However, Wellesley is a timely alert the Indian army found a taboo in the lineup, and the army on the defect configuration. So he to judge the combat effectiveness of some poor opponents, he size up the situation, and decisive war, the final seven thousand British troops in the Battle of Marathi beat more than 40,000 Indian soil Wang Jun.

India after the war, Wellesley home, 1808 ~ 1813 in the Pyrenees peninsula command of English, Spanish, Portuguese forces, fighting with the French, Wellesley, stable and flexible use of defensive tactics and appropriately to Active and timely withdrawal of attack combined amount effective against the dominant French and proxy army, forcing the French forces in Spain and Portugal - because of this war, Wellesley was given the title Duke of Wellington. It was quite clever, original, led the French army was fighting Napoleon in Spain, but in 1809 the Austrian side is assembled with the North Fifth Coalition, Napoleon was no longer take into account the Pyrenees Peninsula war and the rush to return - so the war can not be considered Outram formal vs. Napoleon and Wellington.

Aristocratic background gives Wellington an innate sense of superiority, naturally there is a link with this Pride and Prejudice. Such as treatment of soldiers, he almost never had any good opinion and kind. He denounced them, "the ground spat," "a bunch of hooligans," "from a group of Pianchipianhe be constrained to be the guy with the whip" ... ... even the night in Waterloo Lu Shengli, in a letter to Army Secretary basse Sturgeon's letter, he called those who are still so bloody soldiers on the battlefield as "one can be wrong, bad military" ... ...

Of course, discrimination and arrogance makes the military when he ordered his purge of the military discipline and absolute obedience. In contrast to this, the French retreat from Moscow on his way, undermine the discipline of the soldiers in the face of looting gold and silver jewelry, Napoleon did not order the shot ... ...