Napolean

In the vast history of war, there has never been, and will not be for a long time after, a battle as big as the one in Leipzig. Beginning October 14 through the 19th, 1813, this is the battle that finally destroyed the rein of the great Napoleon, and of course the largest battle in the Napoleonic Wars.

POWER OF NAPOLEON

Possibly no other person has had such a great impact on nationalism in Germany as Napoleon (except maybe Hitler). His impact was most likely the largest in nineteenth-century Europe, and probably no other nation outside France acted so enthusiastic as those in Germany. As Nietzsche once said, "The history of Napoleon's impact, is practically the history of the higher fortune that this entire century has attained in its worthiest men and moments."

Dusseldorf Heine had seen Napoleon once when he was a young