Dams Quote by Amos Elon

What could make the Napoleonic Wars more exciting? Dragons.

— Naomi Novik

There are similarities between historical novels and science fiction. Being thrown into the Napoleonic Wars is just as much of a different world as…

— Alastair Reynolds

“France’s foreign policy in the 19th century was one of expansion and revenge. The idea that the French needed to seek revenge, initially against…

— Charles River Editors

We have known since the Napoleonic wars that crisis in Europe does affect American's daily lives.

— Jake Auchincloss

I think there is a risk that the Holocaust will be placed under a glass bubble just like the Napoleonic Wars or the Thirty…

— Anita Lasker-Wallfisch

I like the idea of getting to dress up, like to do a Barry Lyndon or something about the Napoleonic period, the grand army…

— Ian Astbury

At the time Latin America was composed only of colonies. We were up against the biggest army of the colonial world, the Napoleonic army.…

— Michele Montas

There has never been a century that has not had a systemic war - a systemic war, meaning when the entire system convulses. From…

— George Friedman

Like all men who are Napoleonic in their ambitionshe has instincts about the nature of growth, a lover's sense of the momentof crisis, and…

— Norman Mailer

Premature success gives one an almost mystical conception of destiny as opposed to will power-at its worst the Napoleonic delusion.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

If the bubble reputation can be obtained only at the cannon's mouth, I am willing to go there for it, provided the cannon is…

— Mark Twain

But the tale or narrative set in the past may have its particular time-free value; and the candid reader will not misunderstand me, will…

— Patrick O'Brian