about napoleon. they now -- well, let me put it this way: his whole strategy has been undermined. he didn't succeed this canada. napoleon has collapsed. and the privateers, they are going to take a while. all right. now, let me go on to the second phase of this war. all through, all through 1813 until april of 1814 napoleon is still a problem. remember, he got back to paris. he raised an army, 300,000 men. he, he's back in business. and so the english have to contend with him all, all through that year. and they spend a good part of their time trying to create an alliance of the other european powers to stop napoleon from regaining all his power in europe. that occupies them all throughout 1813. but they still are mad as hell at us. they want to get back at us, and they are just biding their time. they have not forgotten what we did to them. and madison himself, because napoleon is not defeated, he continues on with trying to invade canada, hoping that the privateers will do something, hoping for thi

in fact, the young napoleon established an emotional bond. long before this bonding business got started, you know, the guy that sells me gas says we are really bonding now, aren't we? not really. i just like the coffee, you know? the gas is okay, but the coffee's better. well, but this was a bond. just like this. this loyalty to their first commander would lead the veterans of the army of the potomac to erect this striking monument on some of the same ground where they drilled endlessly in the late part of 1861. this is where he organized those soldiers, where he sought those soldiers, where he molded them in the image that he had for his army. this loyalty to their first commander would only grow even as he found it harder and harder to do the things he wanted to do when he wanted to do them. because there was another actor, in fact, several. one being the commander in chief and the other being the commanding general of the army at that time winfield scott. and mcclellan became so frustrated late in 1861 with having to submit everything by

it collapsed with napoleon's battle at the nile where jefferson destroyed the navy. up to that point, that's what led the federalists to take the steps that they did. the alien sedition act, things that seemed excessive to us and to some at the time. even alexander hamilton thought the act went too far. but you have to understand the fear that these people had. i think the goal of historian is not to take sides and say the federalists were right or the republicans were right, but rather to explain why people thought as they did and acted as they did. and in this case, there were legitimate fears on both sides. >> there's also at that time which must have added to the disquiet if not to the fear, there's social changes going on as people figure out what this new political system means and what its ramifications are. and you had -- i love it when you or any historian highlights a story that is unfamiliar. and it may involve a familiar person, but it just throws a light on something. and one of my favorites in this book involves john rotledge who was a considerable figu

well, napoleon dies at st. helena, and the empire, well, there's that here, and if you ever go out east into alabama, there's a place called demopolis, which was founded by the french emigres. that was to be the foundation of napoleon's empire here in north america, and it doesn't play out. in the aftermath of the war of 1812, this border land between louisiana and texas is a hotly contested area. and one of my favorite characters in all of american history -- it's not john smith -- lature. how many of you guys have heard of lature? my wife has. she's lived with me all these years. latour is kind of these enigmatic figures. he's lived in the shadow of the american history. he's a frenchman, as can you tell by the name. he makes it to louisiana in 1803, and he's an architect. he's an engineer. he had trained as a military engineer. well, by the time of the war of 1812, he's a having a hard time making ends meet. so he joins andrew jackson to fight in this war of 1812. and, in fact, he is the person who designed

now, napoleon was invading other countries and turning them into republican puppet regimes. holland and the netherlands became the bavarian republic. he was doing the same in italy. it wasn't inconceivable that he could invade the united states. after all, the french had invaded earlier. this was a legitimate fear that the united states would be invaded and by french radicals, napoleon's army and that they would turn that into a puppet regime with the aid of the jeffersonian fifth columnists. that was a legitimate fear. it collapsed with the napoleon's defeat at the battle of denial where they destroyed the navy. but up to that point, that's what led the federalists to take the steps they did. the steps that in retrospect seem excessive to us and to some people at the time. evan hamilton thought the sedition act went too far. but you have to understand the fear that these people had. i think the goal of the historian is not to take sides and say well, the federalists were right, the republicans were right, but to explain why people thought as they did and acted as they did.

he'll go that far and eventually he'll go to france and have a biography of napoleon and there he died but his wife became a very pitiful figure, pretty dependent upon drugs and things and died a pauper, but lee and his other brother charles carter, carter lee spent a lot of times trying to figure out what they could possibly do for their mother. they ended up sending her money, but it was never enough and that was black horse harry, and he was the one who had literally lost the farm. it was sold and eventually came to be betsy mccarty who was the sister of black horse harry's wife and she eventually was -- she, for 50 years, was the mistress of stratford. >> thank you so much. [ applause ] >> folks, we are madly counting the ballots in the back. we will give the television audience just a few minutes with emory. rather than us taking a break, by the time everybody gets up and walks out and walks back in, why don't you talk amongst yourselves for just a few minutes. >> live on american history tv on c-span3. as you may have heard the folks at the museum of the confederacy counting the

general, i'm afraid that your man little napoleon, george mcclellan came in last. he had only 12 votes. [ inaudible ] jim macpherson. instead of saying damn, the torpedos, he might have said full speed ahead and he came second to last at 13 votes. >> david blight, your manfred bailey otherwise known as frederick douglas came in right in the middle with 20 votes. bob cribbings, hero, and he had 25 votes and i am here to pronounce that robert e. lee with 71 votes was promoted from the king of spades to the ace of spades. robert e. lee is the man of year for 1862, and i'd like to thank all of you for coming and please get home safely. >> so the winner at the library in virginia in richmond for person of the year is the selection of robert e. lee as person of the year 1862. aga again, the nominees today were from robert krick, who is the chief historian of fredericksburg for 30 years, david blight of yale nominated frederick douglas who came in third, nominated by james macpherson came in first and he was dead last in the voting in virginia and we congratulate professo

and the europeans have effectively been on top of the heap since about 1815 when the napoleonic war ended so we have had about two centuries, which is a pretty good run, and i think we are headed to now is the world that for much of the 21st century won't have a dominant player and that is an interesting world. it's not that different than where we were in 1600 when you have the holy roman empire, the ottomans, the japanese empire, the chinese empire, but the difference is in the 1600's goes into real zones didn't penetrate. they really interacted with each other. the each ago according to their own. what's happened now we are all smashed together. what we do here, with china does, what happens in india affects us and why this why the next is going to be complicated, because we need to agree on a set of rules in ways that we have never before. >> how we set that year up in the 17th and 18th centuries became? >> i think the story starts with the end of feudalism, and to some extent, europe's strength was its weakness because when the structure began to erode, suddenly use of a town's emerg

team people came to this grove from the region to pray for a russian victory over napoleon people in the surrounding villages still tell the story of the maori who sacrificed twenty six horses to the gods. now it's time for you. to join other worshipers at the prayer in appealing to the gods they do so to the singing of an exodus touched sacrificial animals. this is followed with a meal shared by those taking part in the ritual giving out food from parts to bring the people together according to their beliefs people get closer to the gods by eating in this way. everywhere try to be here for the service. before nightfall finally find what they set out for at the start of the expedition . depression. pit in the very center of a field. a safe distance from it the people living in this village used to plough these fields and grow crops on it. but. they were awakened by loud noises. when they came here they were surprised to see a large crater in the middle of a field with some water in the boat some. scientists have found a stream beneath the depression when it erodes the top layer of th

that little seal had a little napoleonic complex, i own this beach, so we can be friends. >> i think he becomes his own in like five seconds or less. >> oh! >> yeah. i found this story on yahoo! sports and that is a ford capri piranha at the target west point road rally in australia. the driver is 24-year-old george. and it's the first time he's driving that car. it belongs to his dad andrew who couldn't drive this car on this race because of an injury. so he said to his son, i will trust yo with m so you can race. just two things, don't crash the car and don't come in second. >> oh. >> he did both. he crashed the car and if you notice there's already a car in there so he technically came in second. >> probably came in last. >> came into the water second. >> dads have been regretting handing their keys over to sons for decades. you can't blame the kid. it's racing. that's what happens. you got to know the risks of racing. >> get this, this kid knew the risks of racing because he is a stock car racer so he's done this. >> no wonder dad would trust him with the keys. >> it, obviously,

that's not lee's phrase, but i think napoleon said it. but i associate it with t. harry williams in any event. unless we reverse the way the world works, the stronger side is going to win the war. and so lee set about trying to reverse the way the world works. to be the stronger side in where it counted to destroy an enemy army. so, in the wake of the seven pines, lee comes to command. now, realize robert e. lee in the mexican war where he is the finest soldier scott ever saw on the field really didn't have a command. he was on scott's staff. lee has never commanded anything more than two companies of marines at harper's ferry on act 16th, 1859, when they stormed the fire engine house and captured five rebels commanded by john brown. harper's ferry, 1859. now, maybe commanding two companies of marines is all you need. the marines contend that way anyway. but here is lee confronting 105,000 yankees who are in the suburbs of richmond. and what did he do? he set his men to work digging trenches, field fortifications. and so this man who had been called granny lee, the

he'll go that far and eventually he'll go to france and have a biography of napoleon and there he died but his wife became a very pitiful figure, pretty dependent upon drugs and things and died a pauper, but lee and his other brother charles carter, carter lee spent a lot of times trying to figure out what they could possibly do for their mother. they ended up sending her money, but it was never enough and that was black horse harry, and he was the one who had literally lost the farm. it was sold and eventually came to be betsy mccarty who was the sister of black horse harry's wife and she eventually was -- she, for 50 years, was the mistress of stratford. >> thank you so much. [ applause ]

his favorite answer -- >> the question was, who defeated napoleon at waterloo?d very eagerly said, duke ellington! >> reporter: with confidence. >> yes. >> reporter: among his favorite days with wrc, radio. a drive time announcer in the big band era. interviewing some big names. >> i would select them. and i would go up and interview them. ♪ >> reporter: he still comes back to nbc 4 every week with former colleagues to listen to favorites. ♪ hey there ♪ you there with the stars in your eyes ♪ >> reporter: and it's the good old days that make for his favorite kinds of questions. >> i like when they do broadway show questions. i grew up in new york city, and i saw first premier run on oklahoma. >> reporter: his legend is still legendary here. he can rattle off baseball stats. while most of us were always just waking up on saturday mornings to watch, mac was always spot-on, never missing a beat. you've got cheerleaders, fans, bleachers filled, the parents, students. there's so much electricity in here, there's a lot of nervous energy, too. what's it like for you? i

on his death bed, it is said that the deposed french emperor napoleon muttered, they wanted me to be another washington. it was a reluctant tribute from one with military man to another. albeit one whose character reflected a different attitude to power and the democratic experiment. lincoln as usual had a pithy formulation. character he said is like a tree. and reputation like its shadow. the shadow is what we think of it. the tree is the real thing. george washington it hardly needs to be say is -- said is the real thing. yet, it isn't that simple and neither is he. it's equally true that the man for who us personifies the ideal of service before self spent much of his early life pursuing what shakespeare will be called the bubble of reputation. washington craved the wealth and deference showered on military heroes by a stratified society. as his priorities changed, so did his penchant for self-promotion. in time, the youthful surveyor would redraw single-handedly the parameters of success. and in the process he would do much to shape the character of the nation he made possible. a

a more fulsome understanding of the art of war as had been explained by prince chamonix of the napoleonic school. general lee later said after three or four changes in the commander of the army of the potomac, i fear that they will eventually appoint someone in command that i don't under. command that i don't understand. thank you so much. >> okay, gang, it's quarter of three. let's take 15 minutes and let's be in your seats ready to go at 3:00. >>> on american history tv all day live coverage from the library of virginia of a discussion on the person of the year 1862. five historians presenting their case and nominating individuals for person of the year 1862. we have heard from four of the historians so far and here are the nominations, robert crick nominated, thomas stonewall jackson. robert crick was the former head of fredericksburg battlefield. we heard from david blithe who dominated frederick douglass. james mcpherson nominated admiral david farragut and you heard the nomination of george b. mcclellan. we're going to open up our phone lines for your thoughts and your comments and

began in earnest to put the soldiers to the test the venue's here on the slopes and bridges across napoleon are undergoing the sternest examination yet heard of the two thousand and fourteen winter games for both the organizers and the leeds it's a perfect chance to fine tune their routines where these were the first to come. on the slopes for russia's downhill ski caught some compared the experience favorably with the two thousand and ten winter olympics in vancouver so there you are simply basically little pieces here and the compared to what i signed canada except there was ice in vancouver to us which made it even more difficult to talk more about the overall conditions here are good because. alexandra procopio came out on the top of the competition she says smaller events like this one offer an important rehearsal for the main event in sochi in two thousand and fourteen. and it's a chance to train more and we'll have the advantage in comparison to other skiers who only come here for the olympics with thirty kilometers of new posts and world class accommodation through organizers hope t

hundred thirteen people came to this grove from all over the region to pray for a russian victory over napoleon people in the surrounding villages still tell the story of the maori who sacrificed twenty six horses to the gods. but. now it's time for you have ghanian vereker mentioned off to join other worshipers at the prayer in appealing to the gods they do so to the singing of an exodus touched sacrificial animals. this is followed with a meal shared by all those taking part in the ritual giving out food from enormous pots to bring the maori people together according to their beliefs all these people get closer to the gods by eating in this way. mari people from all over have come here even those living in moscow and st petersburg. everywhere in russia try to be here for these press service. before nightfall the romans finally find what they set out for at the start of the expedition the depression. seeing an enormous pit in the very center of a field they hold their vehicles at a safe distance from it is the people living in this village used to plough these fields and grow crops on it. but.

napoleon said are with indispensable men and charles de gaulle picked it up. >> nothing succeeds like first really said the americans and the british are the same people divided by a common language. >> by a common language. >> it's sometimes attributed to shaw. i'm not sure if he was the source. >> it sounds very shady . the quotes were quite long. they weren't terse. >> one of them was, if you don't beat your own drum, no one else will. sometimes he could be. >> he practiced what he preached in that one, i'll say. i mean, he just never let it go. wouldn't want to live in a house where the drum was beating 24 hours a day. all of his plays. >> we got to go. we got to go, but who was it that said orson welles, but for the grace of god, there goes god. that's our show for today. we're so glad you joined us for this unusual discussion of words. we will do it again. please come back next week for our regular programming. cheers! ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> many have spoken out on the need to transition to a clean energy future. at exillon we are acting. by 2020 we are committed to reducing, offsetting or

full quote in rome it was the military used by caesar internally that took over in nazi germany in napoleon's france this is always the danger in third world countries today and in ancient nations this is classic and these politicians in a revolving door are invested in these drone companies the body scanning companies all of it and they're getting incredibly rich off of setting up surveillance and weapons systems against the people and the. it is really frightening now as you mentioned it's the military as of now that has been using these drones but this new bill would allow companies to use the aircraft of how do you expect companies especially big companies think google and companies like that to use this technology. well that's the problem because of technology getting so inexpensive and robotics and factories would cost ten million dollars a decade ago cost one hundred thousand dollars and things are going to get cheaper and cheaper and these big mega companies like google that's already operating in fourteen states just a couple years ago it was one state with with robot eighteen wheele

the french finally overthrow napoleon iii and the president congratulates them on adopting american principles. what would the french foreign office think of that? we don't know. they have become americanized. now, the big turning point as you know occurs in 1917 which i think is very illustrative of our attitude. in the beginning, you know, in the spring the czar is forced out of -- forced to abdicate. and seven days later in may we recognize the new republic. the moderate government. and first nation in the world to recognize the new russian republic. and wilson is ecstatic. he had a new fit partner for his league and so on. and the representative -- our minister in moscow writes back, russia will come out with correct american principles is what he is saying. a few months later, six months later the bolsheviks take over. what happens? we had the last major state in the world to recognize the soviet union. i think ireland was the last. 16 years, four american presidents. the last state to recognize. now what happened? we had been recognizing these rebellions. i think it's because the soviets

napoleon alexander the great or winston churchill moscow vader's voters face a tough choices the city'selection committee stages of the presidential poll discover who the other highflying candidates are a click away plus. pancake fever sweeps russia's the country celebrates muslim needs so the traditional festival bidding farewell to winter. the u.s. soldier accused of passing classified secrets to wiki leaks has been officially charged at a military court bradley manning declined to enter a plea he's already been held for nineteen months and subject to treatment that a group of top u.s. lawyers says amounts to torture many of his supporters think a fair trial may be impossible after president obama made remarks that the whistleblower had broken the law kevin zeese attorney and director of the come home america group thinks the wrong person may be on trial. well this is a case of a very low level classified documents in fact there's questions as to whether they should be classified at all we have to also realize that when. we release the pentagon papers those are very high level secrets