Napoleon I of France Quote

I see that everybody has lost their head since the infamous capitulation of Bailén. I realise that I must go there myself to get the machine working again.


Said after Dupont's capitulation at Bailén to the Spanish (1808), as quoted in The Art of Warfare on Land (1974) by David G. Chandler, p. 164


I see that everybody has lost their head since the infamous capitulation of Bailén. I realise that I must go there myself to get the machine working ...

I see that everybody has lost their head since the infamous capitulation of Bailén. I realise that I must go there myself to get the machine working ...

I see that everybody has lost their head since the infamous capitulation of Bailén. I realise that I must go there myself to get the machine working ...

I see that everybody has lost their head since the infamous capitulation of Bailén. I realise that I must go there myself to get the machine working ...