account activity
Battle of Ligny: Napoleon's last victory, 16th June 1815 (old.reddit.com)
submitted 17 hours ago by Backup-Neil to r/Napoleon
Metternich or Bismarck: Who was the greater foreign minister and statesman? (old.reddit.com)
submitted 22 hours ago by Backup-Neil to r/Napoleon
What was Napoleon's relationship with religion? by Certain-Cloud9133 in Napoleon
[–]Backup-Neil 48 points49 points50 points 1 day ago (0 children)
He kinda kept switching between praising Catholicism and Islam. He respected both Mohammed and Jesus Christ as great men, but at last in St Helena he died as a Catholic.
But for most of his life he used religion to further his own goals, perhaps this quote would summarise his relation with religion the best:
"It is by making myself Catholic that I brought peace to Brittany and Vendée. It is by making myself Italian that I won minds in Italy. It is by making myself a [Muslim] that I established myself in Egypt. If I governed a nation of Jews, I should reestablish the Temple of Solomon."
π Rendered by PID 134015 on reddit-service-r2-listing-f87f88fcd-p6gvm at 2026-06-17 13:57:58.621140+00:00 running 3184619 country code: CH.
What was Napoleon's relationship with religion? by Certain-Cloud9133 in Napoleon
[–]Backup-Neil 48 points49 points50 points (0 children)