Napoleon vs colony of Rabbits | Did you know who won?
History is witness to the fact that French statesman and military leader Napoleon’s most upsetting defeat came at the Battle of Waterloo.
Wait.
What if I told you that he was once attacked by an army of happy-but-naughty rodents, and the French emperor could not help but fled from the battlefield at once.
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There are a good amount of references to this tale. However, the one that follows below is the most accepted version of the tale. One fine day in the month of July, in the year 1807, the emperor looked settled. The Treaty of Tilsit marked an end to the war between the French Empire and Imperial Russia. The French emperor wanted to celebrate the occasion and called for a rabbit hunt. Alex Berthier, the Chief of Staff was ordered to arrange proceedings.
As ordered, the Chief worked to his full capabilities, arranged for the day's lunch in the outdoors amidst the sprawling nature. Also he arranged in particular, for the Emperor's rabbit hunt by collecting some hundreds of those furry mammals, caged in the vicinity, right at the end of the lawn.
As Napoleon jumped in for the hunt, the rabbits were released from their cages. There were a few other hunters bearing guns and piercers accompanying the Emperor in the hunt.
However, the Emperor was forced to retreat within moments, as the rabbit hunt didn't go very well. What actually happened was that as soon as the trapped bunnies were let free, they aimed their jumps towards the Emperor and his men, and up their legs, onto thier heads. While the Emperor tried to shoo them away, the rabbits didnt bother at all and stormed into the Bastille.
Napoleon's party had a hearty laugh about the incident, but as the bunnies kept climbing up the Emperor's jacket overpowering him, immediate help was rushed in to free the Emperor of France from the attack of the rabbits.
Napoleon ran towards his carriage, however the furry beings didnt stop chasing him upto the royal cart. Some even leapt into the carriage, but retreated after the coachman swung his whip around them. The attack of the rabbits seemed to stop only when the carriage drove away from the scene so that the safety of the Emperor could be ensured.
Most would like to put it in this way, "It was Berthier’s fault". Because he had brought in tamed and domesticated rabbits from nearby villages inspite of bringing wild hares from the woods. Since the tamed ones didn't see the Emperor as an enemy, so they sprung on him to show their love and effection, or perhaps to lick his head thinking of it as a big fresh and juicy carrot.
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