Napoleon Said: Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. The story goes that Napoleon planted trees along French road in order to keep his troops shaded wherever they marched. They were planted long before Napoleon - in the 16th century. The origin is that Henri IV ordered the building of straight roads with trees on either side to provide firewood and building materials.
Napoleon is correctly credited with numerous military innovations. The most significant change Napoleon made to the troop mix of his army was an increase in skirmishers, including light infantry, fusiliers, and grenadiers.
Signifiant accomplishments were more far-reaching than military innovations. His Napoleonic Code streamlined the French legal system, and still forms the foundation of French civil law. Other accomplishments include:
Decipherment of hieroglyphic writing by French scientists during Napoleon's Egyptian expedition
invention of the ambulance service by a doctor of Napoleon's army
invention of the submarine by American Robert Fulton commissioned by Napoleon. First launched in France in 1800
Napoleon himself is given credit for discovering and proving Napoleon's theorem in mathematics
the metric system
the tricolour French flag and the national anthem
He seemed to be endlessly creating - there are many more achievements credited to him in the article HERE.
Aren't these excellent model railway scenes found at the Sacramento convention.
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