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I think the prussians would have been wrong to execute Napoleon. Things we ascribe to modern warcrimes failures or successes would have been admitted into the room a century earlier, had they done this.

be careful where your finger points because 4 of them may point back at yourself.



True. Kings would start (and lose) wars back then with wild abandon. They didn't want to start a precedent and be the next head on the chopping block.




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