Here's one of his most passionate early letters to his wife [translated by Henry Fuljambe ... check out "The Letters of Napoleon to Josephine." ...

After Napoleon's lost most of his army in Russia, Britain, Russia, Prussia, and Sweden united against him. Only Austria, ruled by his new wife's father, wavered. But they wouldn't remain neutral ...

To defeat Russia, Napoleon marched his soldiers deep into Poland. WOLOCH: Napoleon’s justification is that you always have to take the war to your adversaries and you have to defeat them ...