"The nation that will insist upon drawing a broad line of demarcation between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to find its fighting done by fools and its thinking by cowards."
Despite the fact that I had to participate in that most dreadful of military traditions this weekend--mandatory fun--I still found some time to finish a chapter or two in Chandler's book about Napoleon.
As it winds out, I discovered a fun fact about Le Petit Corporal. Did you know that during his first six years of service in the French Army, he spent a grand total of thirty-two months on leave?
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Sounds like G.W. Bush.
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