Napoleon Bonaparte: The fall of the Empire

Napoleon Bonaparte was an outstanding commander and leader. However, the French Empire still fell, and in this video we will take a look at exactly how. Despite the Continental Blockade, which hindered French trade, Napoleon continued his campaign in conquering Europe. His goals were Spain, which for a while fell under the occupation power of Joseph Bonaparte, and Portugal, which was protected from the French only thanks to the forces of Britain. This period was remembered for the Battle of Aspern-Essling, Napoleon's first major defeat, and the fatal invasion of the Russian Empire with the famous Battle of Borodino.
The Battle of Leipzig, also known as the Battle of the Nations was crucial for Napoleon, for after the massive loss he was exiled to the island of Elba. During the famous "Hundred Days" period, Napoleon tried to regain power, but the crushing defeat at Waterloo finally put an end to the French emperor's efforts to conquer Europe. This is how the story of Napoleon Bonaparte ended, but not the ideas of the French Empire, which would live on for another half century until democracy was established in France forever.

[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

The invassion of russia has to be one of the worst mistakes ever

[@tashantimothy6180]

Fails every time

[@Ratta907]

@@tashantimothy6180 not everytime but mostly.

[@jackwei22]

Unless you're the Mongols.

[@Ratta907]

@@jackwei22 they created Russia technically

[@tuckerbugeater]

@@Ratta907 Napoleon was controlled opposition lol.

[@Kariakas]

Another very well done video.

[@justsomeguywholikesdavidbo1085]

The production value is crazy. Really deserves more views.

[@That-Belgian-Guy]

The quality is very high, good job!

[@commy1231]

I thought that after divorcing Josephine, Napoleon’s first choice of marriage was to a Russian princess, but it was rejected by the russians, so he had to settle for the Austrian one.

[@catman8770]

The video transcript on this video for once was actually human made unlike a lot of your other video scripts that were at least partially made or edited with AI. However, things like having an AI generated video description, channel icon, channel description, etc, are all a massive disservice to the high quality of the visuals and the actual human generated scripts.

[@Benito-lr8mz]

Russia and Spain the tombs of Napoleon

[@capablemachine]

After Wagram the Austrian army retreated to Znaim and that's where they capitulated, much to the consternation of the Austrian Emperor who saw that archduke Charles never saw active command again. Napoleon only left Elba because he had heard rumours he would be banished to St. Helena, which he ultimately was. The image of Napoleon abdicating is the first time he abdicated, that's the Marshall's revolt where they demanded that he abdicate.

[@CliffCardi]

Napoleon: “I have the most powerful army in Europe. What could possibly go wrong?”

[@danielwatcherofthelord1823]

A MILLION smaller armies team up against you! This is why it would nearly ever be possible to conquer Europe. Almost always the U.K. will spoil the dreams of any would be conqueror.

[@JDDC-tq7qm]

​@@danielwatcherofthelord1823 more like Russia will spoil any would be dreamer Charles , Napoleon and Hitler found out the hard way 😂

[@tomso9246]

Thank you Tobias Fünke

[@commy1231]

Napoleon’s best soldiers were also not in Spain in 1812. The Imperial Guard was in the Grande Armee

[@reorioOrion]

Very good animation. I like her very much. However, the presentation of information is extremely poor. Boring and aloof. The author's emotional involvement in great historical events is not felt.

[@AlexandreMakavitch]

you falsificate map at that time Lithuania capital was Vilno not Vilnius

[@catman8770]

Vilnius is just the name of Vilno (An archaic name for Vilnius, now Vilnis (roughly) in lithuanian) in English.

[@AlexandreMakavitch]

@@catman8770 Vilnius name of sity on Samogitian languige that relative to Indian. Vilno was founded by Romans that in Chronical Bihovets

[@catman8770]

@@AlexandreMakavitch The Romans never even got close to Lithuania. The only relation to Rome I could find in a quick search of the Chronical Bihovets is that Lithuania nobility was supposedly from a family descended from Roman nobility long after the fall of Western rome. Secondly yes Vilnius is the Samogitian name, but its also the name in English, plus Samogitian has nothing to do with Indians, idk where you got that from. Also run your messages through an AI or something to correct grammar, your English is poor and very difficult to interpret, assuming I even interpreted it correctly.

[@AlexandreMakavitch]

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[@AlexandreMakavitch]

@@catman8770 lituanos ab italis originem written on statut gdl, official lunguige was latin till 1529 when statut was translated to belarussian they call it rus lunguige

[@victorcenteno1108]

FAKE: “the Pyrenees” on minute 9 are NOT WHERE your fake documentary is claiming to be. FAKE

[@jacoblongbrake8230]

Napoleon wasn't wrong to invade though just the way he did it was wrong

[@DaveSCameron]

Meanwhile across Atlantic Great Britain was fighting those American rebels again, sacking Washington DC and Detroit. ☘️🤣📚🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🍻🇬🇧