... that Napoleon, one of the best military leaders in all of history and ruler of the powerful French empire, was ever defeated? As history has shown, empires come to ruins because of the many factors they deal with maintaining control. Napoleon had many factors in his favor that made him a feared and powerful ... man, but it was not so much the battles he lost that lead to his downfall; it was the struggles that he faced in his own empire that lead to his end as emperor. Some people would credit the defeat of Napoleon to ... the pressure on Britain and thus "destroyed his own work " (Engl...

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