What famous military leaders used napoleon bonpartes tactics?
Some famous losers. Hitler copied him by invading Russia. In 1870 the French army again relied on enthusiasm and dash to break a formation of disciplined infantry, and were once again mopped up without problem by the Prussians. In the Spanish Civil War the Republicans, like Napoleon, tried to live off the country while their opponents had proper supply lines. Guess who lost. In the 1WW in Flanders both sides tried Napoleonic tactics: after a preliminary bombardment, a charge by infantry to try to break through a line. Neither side got much joy out of it. Despite much chauvinist propaganda from the French, Napoleon was actually a rotten general. He was O.K. as a colonel of artillery, but was promoted beyond his ability for political reasons. He had much success against half-trained continental armies but his troops failed repeatedly when they came up against real infantry – culminating in the cup final at Waterloo when his first team were thrashed by a team of reserves (the veteran infa
