HISTORY
ABSOLUTISM AND REVOLUTION
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Napoleon did not have the support of the French people.
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Napoleon’s army lacked the most current weaponry.
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Napoleon lacked a large and disciplined army.
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Napoleon’s navy could not control the seas.
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Detailed explanation-1: -A combination of weather, disease, desertion, and attacks reduced his army to less than 80, 000 troops by the time they left Russia. To summarize the totality of Napoleon’s mistakes during the Russian Campaign: he was unable to adapt his brilliant thinking beyond the localized context of the battlefield.
Detailed explanation-2: -The foreign policy of Napoleon I of France in his struggle against Great Britain during the Napoleonic Wars that used the economic warfare as a strategy to weaken Britain.
Detailed explanation-3: -Historians know that rainy and muddy conditions helped the Allied army defeat the French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte at the Battle of Waterloo. The June 1815 event changed the course of European history.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Battle of Waterloo (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈʋaːtərloː] ( listen)) was fought on Sunday 18 June 1815, near Waterloo (at that time in the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, now in Belgium). A French army under the command of Napoleon was defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition.