Biggest badass of the Napoleonicc Wars
Posted Dec 15, 2019, 2:10 AM UTC
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But then he took a gunshot in the knee
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But at least he survived. Unlike Marshal Lannes who took a cannonball to the knee...
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Nobody ever managed to steal his sweetroll though.
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Napoleonic wars had plenty of badass dudes, but this one seems to be up there. Special mention for getting wounded by an arrow in 1813 lmao
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Yep, plenty of heroic people fought on both sides in these wars.
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Indeed. The fact some of them managed to survive two decades of intense warfare and many battle wounds like that is very impressive imo
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Yeah, sadly lot of them died in action (Lannes, Lasalle, Bagration...etc).
But those who survived had plenty of stories to tell their friends.
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Shame about Ney though. One of the biggest badass of the war and he got executed like a criminal after Waterloo for having joined Napoleon when he came back from exile...
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Dude was basically like Sharpe but in real life.
In the aftermath of the battle of Austerlitz, he threw himself into the icy waters of a frozen lake to save a drowning Russian soldier.