Napoleon, India and the Russian intrigues – Part 1
Posted by Labels: French conquest India, French India, Napolean
The Oriental conquest for the Golden
Sparrow 1801
We are all so used to speaking English
these days, but can you imagine a prospect of a French speaking India? Well it
could have happened if Napoleon had followed on with his oriental dreams of
acquiring the golden sparrow and won the battles with the British. Napoleon was
quite vocal about his desire to conquer the East from the very beginning, as he
remarked after his first Italian Campaign: ''My
glory is already at an end; there is not enough of it in this little Europe. I
must go to the East; all great glory comes from there." While his loss
at the battle of Waterloo is apparent to most, the Indian aspirations of
Napoleon are not so well known.