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What word can describe the most humiliating defeat of Napoleon?

Rabbits.

And although there is no doubt about the most crushing defeat of Napoleon, yet it was not the most shameful.

In 1807, Napoleon was in high spirits: he had just signed the Peace of Tilsit, an agreement on the division of borders between France, Russia and Prussia. Wishing to celebrate such a wonderful event, the emperor invites the entire court to enjoy an afternoon rabbit hunt.

Napoleon instructs his confidant, chief of staff Alexander Berthier, to organize the hunt, who is so eager to impress his patron that he buys several thousand rabbits at once, so that the imperial court is not bored.

The retinue arrived, the hunt began, the huntsmen released the prey. And then the unexpected happened. It turned out that Berthier bought not wild at all, but ordinary domestic rabbits, who mistakenly decided that now they would be fed, and not killed.

Instead of asking the goad, they spotted a little man in a large cocked hat, mistaking him for the owner who brought the food. Hungry hunting trophies rushed to Napoleon at full speed (and this is no less than 56 km / h).

The dumbfounded retinue could not stop the rabbit pressure, and the poor emperor had no choice but to take flight, fighting off the starving beast with his bare hands. However, the rabbits did not give in and eventually drove Napoleon back into the carriage, ignoring the lackeys, who unsuccessfully lashed them with their whips.

According to contemporaries who were present at this fiasco, the French emperor rushed away, completely broken and covered with indelible shame.

Author: John Lloyd, John Mitchinson

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