Great!! Also don’t forget - Epic History released a video on the Battle of Eylau 1807 while you were away. It was to fill in a gap left in the main narrative, and honestly it has to be one of my favorite battle videos they have done. Regarding your question at 16:30 - a few reasons the French lasted so long: First, they did have an excess of ammunition (from the captured stores at Gaza). Klebert was also very careful to ration it. More critically, however, the French were not firing continuously - Remember, the enemy was a disorganized untrained peasant rabble. It took a lot of effort on the part of the Ottoman officers, to get the army moving. So for most of those 10 hours, there was just a standoff, with a few violent charges interspersed. Think back to the battle of the pyramids.
Napoleon understood the utility of religion as a factor of social cohesion, and his approach to it was always utilitarian in nature. The Concordat of 1801 with Pope Pius VII, concluded during his term as First Consul, was a prime example of this. The Concordat restored France's ties to the papacy and the status of the Catholic Church as the majority church of the state. But the state now wielded greater power vis-à-vis the Pope than previous French regimes, and church lands lost during the Revolution were not returned. Not only did this serve to quell the hostility of devout Catholics who were against the state and thereby win their favour, it also gave Napoleon another tool by which to create a more peaceful and controlled country after the many years of revolutionary turmoil.
Great!! Also don’t forget - Epic History released a video on the Battle of Eylau 1807 while you were away. It was to fill in a gap left in the main narrative, and honestly it has to be one of my favorite battle videos they have done.
Regarding your question at 16:30 - a few reasons the French lasted so long: First, they did have an excess of ammunition (from the captured stores at Gaza). Klebert was also very careful to ration it. More critically, however, the French were not firing continuously - Remember, the enemy was a disorganized untrained peasant rabble. It took a lot of effort on the part of the Ottoman officers, to get the army moving. So for most of those 10 hours, there was just a standoff, with a few violent charges interspersed. Think back to the battle of the pyramids.
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Napoleon understood the utility of religion as a factor of social cohesion, and his approach to it was always utilitarian in nature. The Concordat of 1801 with Pope Pius VII, concluded during his term as First Consul, was a prime example of this. The Concordat restored France's ties to the papacy and the status of the Catholic Church as the majority church of the state. But the state now wielded greater power vis-à-vis the Pope than previous French regimes, and church lands lost during the Revolution were not returned. Not only did this serve to quell the hostility of devout Catholics who were against the state and thereby win their favour, it also gave Napoleon another tool by which to create a more peaceful and controlled country after the many years of revolutionary turmoil.
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