Uploaded February 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 day ago

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The army was already broken.
The command was unwanted.
And Napoleon was chosen anyway.

This wasn’t belief in his talent.
It was something colder.

This episode asks why Napoleon Bonaparte was handed a command everyone else avoided — and why failure was the expected outcome.


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