Similarities and Differences of Hilter and Napolean

Founder and leader of the Nazi party, who many describe to be the most insane and trouble causing man in the history of the entire world. Adolf Hitler’s goal was to make Germany the strongest country in the world, which he did, along with most of Europe. His armies of over sixteen million men were standing by his side the whole way. Although he had a large group of followers, he also had an even larger group of people who were against him. Adolf felt that if he did not remove all of the Jews from the face of the earth, he would have been seen as a failure, so he tried, and he tried, and he tried. But in the end, he failed. This then led to him believing that he was a failure, which then led to him shooting himself in the mouth.†¦show more content†¦Besides the fact that he conquered Moscow, the Russians did not surrender. Instead, they burned the city before the French got there, so the shelter and supplies that Napoleon was counting on were destroyed. So, his army h ad to retreat back to Germany, while being chased and hunted by the Russians. The whole Russian campaign ended up as a complete failure. He lost almost all of his 500,000 men that he had started with. In 1810, he divorced Josephine and married the daughter of the Austrian Emperor, Marie-Louise, in a last attempt to improve relations. Upon his return to France, the Prussians, Russians, Swedish, and the British started the War of Liberation against him. His army was soon forced over the Rhine at the Battle of Leipzig. However, the allied armies did not accept the plan and they demanded that the brother of Louis XVI, Louis XVIII, be put on the throne. Napoleon was sent to rule the Island of Elba in 1813 with the British Navy guarding the Island. But, in 1815, he returned to Paris and his old armies quickly gathered around him, already sick of the new king. The allies were threatening to invade France again since they heard of the return of Napoleon, so he quickly organized a new army a nd marched them into Belgium to meet the British and Prussian armies. In Ligny, he defeated the Prussians and then marched to Waterloo to meet the British under Wellington. At first, he was doing well in the battle.