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Originally Posted by Taltarzac725
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What images I
evoke when I mention Napoleon Bonaparte? This may be one of them. Napoleon crossing the Great St. Bernard Pass over the Alps into Italy in 1800. He did wait for late
spring to make an attempt to get over the pass and managed to get 60,000 Frenchmen to the southern
bottom of the pass. This feat did
shift his image in the eyes of many of the locals who lived near this pass.
Napoleon