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Classical view of #History considers that historical events are due to the providential appearance of a #GreatMan.
Despite hero theory, all this rests on the #Philosophy of #Hegel, that great man who is mortal and perishable is a "incarnation" of "idea" that is eternal and immobile.History would be nothing more than biographies and lists of dates of births, battles and deaths.
Xix century is also that of #Romanticism, which in #Europe gave rise to #Nationalism.
Napoleón y la teoría del gran hombre de la historia

¿Puede una sola persona cambiar la historia e influir en la vida de millones de personas? El historiador británico ofrece un análisis sobre cómo una corriente de pensamiento de gran éxito durante el siglo XIX consideraba que la historia estaba determinada sobre todo por los grandes personajes

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American (1765) and French (1789) Revolutions led to the crisis of the "Société d'Ancien Régime" linked to "trois ordres sociaux imperméables" and possession of land and its fruits and to the whims or despotism of the kings -not to the rule of Law- Bourgeoisie obtained political power and accumulation of capital and machine inventions produced successive industrial revolutions from which class society was born.
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Being Spaniard,rage that springs from my heart makes it difficult to see #Napoleon as Europeanist and renovator.
He was a disturbed and a dictator like many others that European continent has born
A tyrant followed by many He rose not by reason but by bayonets and cannons.In Spain forces that opposed tyrant were not those of the reason but mainly dark and reactionary ones that restored absolutism and turned Spain after almost two centuries of civil wars in a backward country of ignorant people.
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What endures in #Spain from #Napoleon and our so-called War of Independence, which is an episode of Napoleonic Wars?
I think that the feeling of loss,
of injustice,of historical nothingness.
What about Spanish Art?
Paintings and series of engravings of #Goya's Los Desastres De La Guerra perhaps the most terrible testimony of what that was like for #Spain and also the first series of Pérez Galdos' "Episodios Nacionales"
I have a broken glass in my window and cold air is coming in.Good night.
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#RidleyScott's #Napoleon is being controversial
Those who consider self-proclaimed Emperor of #France vs those who consider him a dwarf,self-conscious,militaristic and precedent of "espadones" that determined Spanish politics in 19th century.
#Spain has lost an opportunity to reclaim its plundered and destroyed heritage,figures of "afrancesados" and #Patriots,our tribute in Spanish blood to this scoundrel's megalomania and above all the graphic record that #Goya left of the whole disaster
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Not only our artistic heritage was plundered by the French and English, but also our manufacturing and technical facilities
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"Borbones" brought enlightened despotism and #Mercantilism to #Spain Unlike Spanish Habsburg who paid debts with American silver and imports of what Spain could not produce, which due to inflation was almost everything, in mercantilism #Gold and #Silver are hoarded and it's manufacture of goods that are sold in foreign markets which boosts #Economy.
El expolio de Napoleón en España: «Nos esquilmaron pero bien durante la Guerra de la Independencia»

Se estima que entre 2.000 y 3.000 obras de arte fueron sacadas de España entre 1808 y 1814

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England depended on trade with foreign countries and some Spanish manufactures were superior in quality at a lower price. Many times, Wellington was more interested in destroying Spanish manufacturing facilities than in confronting #Napoleon's troops.
Spain never recovered from that.
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Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of #Wellington after his triumphal entry into #Madrid
Oil on canvas by Francisco de #Goya ca 1812
By the way, Goya almost killed Wellington with a couple of shots during posing session.
The Battle of #Waterloo was in 1815 Jun.18 and without Wellington the fate could have been different for #Napoleon