Napoleon realized the HRE is what happens when the Imperial Diet has been in permanent committee since Charlemagne.
by GCN_09
Napoleon realized the HRE is what happens when the Imperial Diet has been in permanent committee since Charlemagne.
by GCN_09
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Border gore so bad even the mapmakers were rooting for the French.
Literally every Kingdom in history
And yet it worked fine for 1000 years, unlike the first fr*ench empire 🤮
Europe would be a much better place with way more lines on the map. We may have even saved ourselves a couple world wars.
I diagnose Germany with ADHD
Top tier
What an aneurysm inducing map that must’ve been to draw.
Charlemagne wasn’t around during the HRE. The first Emperor Otto Ist was crowned in 962
Napoleon: “Fuck it, I’m inventing Nationalism”
And then simplified again after WWII into Baden-Württemberg
“Well it wasn’t a problem until people started trying to draw definitive borders on all the maps” 🙁
Unification of Germany would stall without him.
Great guy.
He doesn’t realize it, but what he did here really screws over his country in about 70 years