Quoting from "The Corsican: A Diary of Napoleon's Life in His Own Words"*
Quote: The impact of an army, like the total of mechanical coefficients, is
equal to the mass multiplied by the velocity. Unquote.
Napoleon must like analogies. Two paragraphs later, he says,
Quote: In warfare every opportunity must be seized; for fortune is a woman:
if you miss her to-day, you need not expect to find her to-morrow . Unquote
*ed. R.M. Johnston (Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin, The Riverside Press,
Cambridge, 1910, pp 143
Bye, David
PS: If you're good in history, does that mean you'll be great on dates?
PPS: My physics students who are taking AP European History found the above
informaton
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