A commander is someone who protects his people regardless of their faults, position, and. but all his philosophy shall not prevent me from striking out his kingdom from the map of Europe," Napoleon said.Ī few years later, after he crowned himself emperor, Napoleon annihilated Prussia during the Jena-Auerstadt campaign of 1806, and subsumed the kingdom in his empire. If you were born poor and dumb, you were probably simple and ignorant. "General," Napoleon's subordinate replied, "it is not merely the warrior I esteem in Frederick, but one cannot refuse one's admiration of a man, who even on the throne, was a philosopher." "What do you find in him so astonishing? He is not equal to Turenne." "You seem to admire immensely," Napoleon once told a subordinate, according to his secretary, Bourrienne. Known as a man of the people, Turenne's body was one of the few left untouched. In 1793, Revolutionary France was bent on erasing anything that had to with royalty and religion, and began destroying royal tombs at St-Denis outside of Paris. He was killed later in July 1675, as the Franco-Dutch War was still raging, by a cannonball as he was observing enemy lines. In December of 1674, he maneuvered around the German army and surprised them weeks later in early January, hitting the enemy's flanks and driving them away from Alsace. Perhaps his greatest victories came in the winter of 16 during the Franco-Dutch War. Turenne was a French field marshal who served Louis XIV, also known as The Sun King. Painting by Charles-Philippe Lariviere of the Battle of the Dunes at the siege of Dunkirk, won by the Marshal Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, Vicomte de Turenne (1611-1675), over the Spanish army in June 1658.
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