ABSTRACT
Napoleon Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) wanted to improve the whole world and sought to
impose the secular ideals of revolutionary France throughout Europe and further
afield. His tactics involved sacrificing huge numbers of his allies,1 crushing victories
enabling him to implement a programme of total control over those who opposed
him. The Corsican artillery officer could only follow his military cast of mind by
codifying all things to bring civilisation into a single mould. The catalogue of conflicts
shows how the old monarchies resisted but were infiltrated by subtler processes
nevertheless. Ideas of all-encompassing order, social justice and man-made salvation
were discussed and assimilated in England, Russia and the German lands.
