And Prime showing it on a quarantined Wednesday. It was a combination history lesson and entertaining movie for me. I didn't know much about Napoleon but I now have an internal argument that he was a great man or a tinhorn dictator.
I know one thing for sure. Our American forefathers (Washington, Jefferson, Adams, Franklin et al) learned their history lessons well. We could have just as easily been ruled by people like Napoleon but for some unknown reason our founding fathers almost to a man turned their backs on personal gain and founded and set up our country on democratic principles almost to a fault. Why so many man of sterling character lived in one small country is something I will never understand but now appreciate. Only exception was slavery.
I know one thing for sure. Our American forefathers (Washington, Jefferson, Adams, Franklin et al) learned their history lessons well. We could have just as easily been ruled by people like Napoleon but for some unknown reason our founding fathers almost to a man turned their backs on personal gain and founded and set up our country on democratic principles almost to a fault. Why so many man of sterling character lived in one small country is something I will never understand but now appreciate. Only exception was slavery.