Michel Ney

The photo “Statue of Marshal Ney in the Fog” was taken by the famous artist Brassaï in 1932, one year before the publishing of his book “Paris de Nuit”, a collection of night photographies of the French capital, mostly representing empty gardens and streets in the rain and fog. The picture, featured in the collection, is a clear example of his early artistic period, which coincides with his first approach to photography itself. In the scene we can see the main element, a monument representing the

Napoleon returned to home to France with only about 10% of his Army still alive. He lost most of his soldiers during the Great White Death, which is one of the largest French disasters to date. Since all the coalition allies knew he was in trouble, they decided to follow him and take him out while he was down and burned out. This is when he decided to give himself up and be exiled to Elba with 1000 guards. Before he left though, he promised his men that he, “… would return when the flowers bloomed

This paper will analyze the Battle of Borodino. Within this analysis, I will examine weather Tolstoy’s treatment of Napoleon’s statements, to include whether or not Tolstoy accurately describes the battle and if he expresses the horror of battle to which Napoleon alluded. Additionally, I will analyze whether or not the passage supports Napoleon’s assessment of the French as victors and the Russians as invincible. Last I will analyze Tolstoy’s view of warfare was. This paper will give a basic understanding

French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte is remembered as one of the greatest minds in military history. His revolutionary approach to warfare changed the course of history and the principles which governed his style of leadership are still valued today. Although he had an illustrious career of over 25 years and expanded the French Empire from Portugal to Russia, his reign came to end at the hands' of his enemies. The Battle of Waterloo was Napoleon's last stand as a military commander and will be examined

had prevailed. In saying that he had usually committed his old guard far earlier than he did that day. The decision Napoleon took in using Grouchy, Ney and Shoult has to be questioned. They all made terrible mistakes during the battle, and therefore it reflects badly on Napoleon in his choice of commanders. Ney ordered a mass,

Thesis Statement: This paper shall attempt to show the reasons for the need of this campaign and why this campaign was important to the decisive outcome of the Napoleonic Wars [1787-1815]. Historical Background: In 1803, the War of the Third Coalition began against France. In this coalition, the powers of the United Kingdom, Austria, Russia, and Sweden went to war against France to reestablish order on the old continent of Europe. In the War of the Third Coalition two major battles of the Napoleonic

Marshal Ney made a threefold of mistakes; Firstly Ney noticed that a portion of British troops appeared to be retreating over the ridge in the center of Wellington’s army, seeing this as an opportunity, Ney dispatched his remaining cavalry and “makes a series of cavalry charges against Wellington's forces on the ridge … but there are many problems with this

]When I was in the second grade my school bus broke down on the way home and we had to call for a bus from the middle school to finish dropping us off. I sat huddled in the torn green back seats with five boys from my class listening intently as a sixth grader explained to us some of the games the middle schoolers played at recess. “It’s called FMK. Fuck, Marry, Kill. You have to choose which person you would fuck, marry, or kill.” Some of the boys giggled but some stayed quiet, not understanding

The Work of Representation Stuart Hall Summarize by Jesse Tseng 1 Representation, meaning and language At first we have to know that： Representation is an essential part of the process by which meaning is produced and exchanged between members of a culture. It does involve the use of language, of signs and images which stand for or represent things. And surly it is not a simple or straightforward process. How this article exploring the concept of representation connect meaning and language to

Risk and governmentality Michel Foucault, a French philosopher, introduced the term governmentality in his lectures at Collège de France in the late1970s and early 1980s; so roughly between 1977 and 1984. The term governmentality refers to both the way in which a state governs the body of its population and to the way in which people are taught to govern themselves. In this paper I will explain what a ‘governmentality’ approach to risk means and what the implications of this approach are. Foucault