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Contents 1 Anecdote: Blanks? 2 Grammar & Section Breaks 3 Unequally 4 Section Breaks 5 wasn't the constitution called the 'liberal empire' 6 After Waterloo 7 Citations and Sourcing 8 Redirects

[edit] Anecdote: Blanks?

No anecdotes ever serve to demonstrate xyz, they serve to illustrate. Many people will understand the difference. The anecdote, if it is apocryphal, is just as good as an illustration of Napoleonic propaganda. So it serves equally well whether true or false. By setting it in context, it deserves to stay. Wetman 02:17, 20 Nov 2003 (UTC)

The qualification to this anecdote only makes sense if Napolean handed the weaponry to the troops he was talking to. Why would one side of 2 lines of opposing troops be armed with "blanks"? If powder-only isn't the period equivalent of a blank, then does the qualification to the anecdote mean anything? Couldn't they just have loaded and shot him? The anecdote in itself seems fine right now. --MJW 10:34, 9 Jan 2005 (UTC)

The section regarding the anecdote seems weak. It initially suggests that the events described may not have happened at all; but at the end it states that "it is however now established that Napoleon knew the weapons were loaded with powder only". Did it happen, or not? Established by whom? -Ashley Pomeroy 06:32, 23 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Grammar & Section Breaks

I think this is a great article. Just moved some commas and added some apostrophes. Usual picky stuff. In addition, it could really do with some section breaks but I'm probably not equal to the task. --MJW 10:16, 9 Jan 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Unequally

I am unclear what the term "unequally" adds to the phrase "This was the last conflict and it was fought between a coalition of Britain, Russia, Prussia, Sweden, Austria and a number of German States and unequally against the person of Napoleon Bonaparte". Presumably, the coalition didn't think it was unequal or there wouldn't have been so many of them. I have removed it. --MJW 10:21, 9 Jan 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Section Breaks

Someone should go to school on this one.--Nick Catalano 03:45, 6 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Done, although the article itself could use a polish and more citations. Durova 04:44, 6 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] wasn't the constitution called the 'liberal empire'

I believe it was.(24.75.194.50 18:04, 30 January 2006 (UTC))

[edit] After Waterloo

I don't know, if Britannica may be wrong or the source misread, but I remember reading that Carnot insisted on declaring the dictatorship and Napoléon himself didn't really support the idea. Ataxerxes 10:02, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Citations and Sourcing

Not a single book listed in sources? Not an inline citation in the entire article? There were 7th coalition troups besieging fortesses until 09/1815... and everyone thinks this article is a good one? I am not sure that anyone has looked at this article in over a year. If anyone cares let me know otherwise I am rewriting it. Tirronan 01:23, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

Agreed - it's pretty poor. If you're rewriting it, I'd say the first thing to mention is that the period given in the first paragraph isn't actually 100 days long! --Rpeh 07:18, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Redirects

I see that the Waterloo Campaign redirects to the 100 days article. Though the 2 are inter-woven I think they are separate subjects. Much of the 100 days is the political rise and fall of Napoleon within French Republic. As such though it impacts and is impacted by the campaign it is still a subject in and of itself that needs to be worked up to the proper size to give it the attention that it needs. The military campaign spans from June 14th to September 15th 1815 with the fall of the last pro-Napoleon fortress to seige. I think the two should be separated. Tirronan 15:18, 3 April 2007 (UTC)