Arizona republican., 1915-06-18
Where the People
 May Have Hearing
S15-NAPOLEON'S
 WATERLOO-1ot5 Just One Hundred Years Aqo Today Was Fought the Decisive Battle of Waterloo With NaPo-
 Icons Downfall
1815-NAPOLEON'S

Previous to that and for a full
 quarter of century, the Man of | Destiny'-as Napoleon was called at
 times. had had il all his own way in l Europe; oVerthrowing kingdoms,
 empires, large and small countries. Victorious in every battle. the taking of Berlin. two or three times and also Vienna. Rome Moscow. Lisbon. Madrid and other European capitals. were for him, but military promen- ades In all his campaigns he dis played the greatest brilliancy in strategiCal and tactical combinations that ensured him supremacy over events. After twenty-five years of an un broken success and, when in the zenith of his power and glory he made his first and great mistake This was the invasion of Russia in 1S13 That invasion was the most stupondous undertaking that any man ever Vcnturcd
 Napoleon did not want to engage a war with Alexander of Russia. who
 was his faithful ally. a personal
 friend and admircr of his cxtraor-
 dinary genius The war was forced
 upon him as part of the "coutinental N
 to curb British ambition. to destroy
 it's commercial prosperity gained
 through its uncontcsted maritime su
 prem1cy "The maritime tyranny of
 England must be destroyed" said Na- poleen before he could hope for the dominion of Europe Since TrafaI gar when Nelson won over the com hiued navies of France and Spain up to the invasion of Russia in 1913. all of Napoleon's cucrrics were bent on the exclusion of all British mer- Chandisc from every port in Europe a mercantile starvation. aS it were. ! just as now England is bent on starving out Germany
 All Europe was then under Napo- | Icons rule and only Russia whose ports remained open to commerce with England Napoleon wanted to 1 complete +the European blockade | against England by forcing Russia to shut it's ports to all commerce with i England Russia objected hence the {, war of 1872. the beginning of the i downfall of Napoleon which ended | at Waterloo.
 Just now history seems to be re- | beating itself. The same jealousy ! between great European nations. the . supremacy of Britain over Germany ! .on the high seas. the desire of Ger many to destroy said supremacy. the 1 blockade of all the ports of Germany ! 10 prevent any foodstuff to reach . Germany-in fact it is a repetition of . the stupcndous wars of Napoleon. a l hundred years ago.
 Napoleon failed to aubdue Russia | in 1S12-13 The severest winter that Europe ever had came to the rescue of Russia The elements did what all tho armies of Europe combined . could not do against Napoleon armies. The suows of Russia with . the bitterost cold ever experienced . reduced the grand army of Napo- l. leon from 500 900 veterans to hardly 35 900 who returned 10 France.
 Having lost all his army in Rus sia's terrible winter campaign. all |, the European nations formed coalition against Napoleon and gave him no time 10 raise another army sufficiently large to cope against them. It was all off with the lit ' tie corporar on the field of Water loo. Fate had turned against him.
 Even then Napoleon's plan of bat tie at Waterloo was a master piece of military ingenuity and he would have succeeded had not fate again decided against him. Grouchy with SC, ,000 veterans failed to intercept or block up Butcher with 500o0 fresh Germans. Then fl rained on the eve of the great battle. This made the ground too soft for cannon and impeded the action of Napoleon, the greatest artillerist that ever lived.
 Even then. Napoleon, with his tactical genius. soon had placed Wellington, the commander of the English forces at disad- vantage His position was serious on June 17th. and at 1 o'clock that afternoon he exclaimed: Would to