think napoleon despised england. on the contrary, he had an admiration for english history and traditions and regulations and its rules. napoleon had a fervent admiration for england. but at that moment of history, french interests were different from english ones. >> the document is now the property of the french museum of letters and manuscripts, preserving the possibility that it will someday be put on display. bbc news reporting. >> this is gmt from "bbc world news. are headlines, markets around the world rise sharply in response to the bailout of spain's beleaguered banks. the african union makes major gains in its battle against the islamist group al-shabab, which controls large parts of somalia. the french president francois hollande's socialist allies look set to merge with a majority. he will likely push through his tax reforms. election saw a surge in support for a far-right group that wants to ditch the euro. the french love affair with friends of hollande still burns brightly. >> very much so. the french

gandhi was more great than napoleon. think about. gandhi was able to defeat the most powerful empire on earth, the british empire, without firing a single bullet. i think he would have been in all because gandhi thought tactically and strategically. he called his supporters an army of peace in the called at the most powerful weapon. gandhi said it had to choose between violence and not fighting, he would rather choose violence. that was waging peace. so here's a good example.

napoleon's establishment of the bank of france was not -- but it was established to finance napoleon's campaigns. so central banks themselves have a very checkered history, both from their origin to this very day, as jim grant was saying, of financing certain political priorities established by either ruling classes, monarchingies or even democratic majorities. what a currency established by law as a weight unit of gold, without any exorbitant privileges given to the british pound or the united states dollar, as was the case under bretton woods in 1944 to 1971, or in the inner war period, 1918 to 1941, to the pound and the dollar alike, without any privileges given to any currencies to substitute for gold, you could then measure the purchasing power of gold itself over the long period, and the great professor roy jastron did the great work, which i would recommend, called "the golden constant." it shows that the purchasing power of gold, specified as a weight unit, for example, of any national currency, was constant for a period of four centuries. so i do yield to the comments that the

latimer bought it in 19 -- he assure everybody that napoleon's penis was absolutely airtight. finally ethan allen sword. he was the very proud owner of ethan allen sword. ethan allen was -- american revolution in 1975. so in 1975, dr. latimer re-enacted ethan allen's sword and his charge on the fort. so that is the story of dr. latimer's ethan allen's story, i wish i had got on to know him, but i did not. i became interested in the civil war when i was a very young man. i always write about the civil war throughout the years. and these are some of the examples of the most famous books about the civil war. bruce patton's trilogy about the army. this happens to be my copy, i looked at it the other day, it says 1962 inside. i was a lot younger. these are all fantastic writers, nobody can compete with their writing style and through the years and certainly as i went into medicine, i graduated medical center in 1975 and through my training in the '70s and the early part of the '80s as i was reading more and more about the civil war. it became obvious at least to me that combat and

jackson called a mere general and clay always feared that napoleons of the world, feared america would elect these generals and would use some pretext, take over and become a dictator like napoleon had during his life. so clay really went to washington knowing to support ad amounts. mistake was not supporting adams. it was getting enough states to vote for adams to be president because he didn't need it. adams was elected. clay made a big mistake and accepted the offer of the secretary of state position from john quincy adams. stepping stone to the presidency. half his people said he should do and it half the people said he shouldn't. he couldn't turn it down. that was then dash used against him as a corrupt bargain. >> andrew jackson was his great nemesis. what was jackson's position on slavery? >> much more hostile than probably one of the first presidents. he cleared out what he considered a threat from florida. he's -- one of his major campaigns into florida was the issue of free blacks with british support. living in florida. along with native americans who were raiding into ameri

clay always feared the napoleons of the world. he feared they would use a tremendous text to take over and become a dictator like napoleon had in his lifetime. then he accepted the offer of secretary of state from john quincy adams. that stunned the presidency. half of the people said he should do it. half theed advisers said he shouldn't. >> andrew jackson was his nemesis. what was his position on slavery? >> much more hostile than probably one of the first presidents. he marched into florida mainly to clear out what he considered a threat from florida. he's one of the major campaigns into florida was the issue of free blacks with british support living in florida, along with native americans who were raiding into american territories. so he's very hostile towards any idea of freedom and much more so than our president is. ne next telephone call from boston. >> caller: hello. i went to high school in east port, maine, which is on moose island. very close to canada. and we all knew in eastport that henry clay had insisted after th

the napoleonic wars killed a fur trading economy. alcoholism is rampant. they are a dispirited defeated people. prior to 1805 it is relatively easy for him to do this. after 1805 we start seeing religious revivals on the indians north of the ohio most famously a guy named the shawnee prophet, that is when harrison changed tactics a bit because they hold to the idea that no indian should sell any land to the united states under any circumstances and that is directly opposite him. he has to adopt a number of tactics to try to win the profit over and he is a tool of the british and we have to watch out for him but basically there isn't any real -- there are occasional flare ups and threats of force but you don't have actual combat until 1811 which most stories argue as far as the ohio valley goes the war of 1812 starts in 1811. >> how long was he in this position and when did it presidential aspirations come into effect? >> one of the things i find interesting is his early career, he is in office for about a month. she did not do a lot during his presidential

. >>> one of napoleon's letters has garnered more than $4,000 at a paris auction. he wrote it in march 1816 in english. the former french emperor was in exile on the remote south atlantic island of st. helena at the time. the british sent him there after defeating him at the battle of waterloo. he wrote the letter for his english teacher. it's filled with misspellings suggesting that once -- the once great leader was struggling with the language. he writes a short note took him two hours to finish. napoleon was famously dismissive of england but the letter shows he was serious about learning the language of those who defeated him. >>> doctors in japan are using a ground-breaking therapy to treat children born with heart problems. regenerative medicine thyself patient's own heart cells to improve cardiac function. if the new technique fulfills its potential, doctors could save lives without resorting to heart transplants. here's the story. >> reporter: hypoplastic left heart syndrome is a serious condition that affects 1 in 10,000 people. this 3-year-old girl was di

and coburn was later selected by the british military to take the former emperor napoleon into skyle on t exile and while walking the deck coburn wrote in his diary that napoleon tried to act still as a sovereign. i cannot allow that. that shows how overbearing he was. what kind of character he was. >> our topic is the burning of washington. the british invasion of 1814, and our guest is the author of the book, anthony pitch. we hear from princeton, new jersey, next. theresa, welcome to the program. >> caller: thank you. it's a telling image to think about dolley saving some of her husband's paper, burt i would like to know what efforts were made to save government papers in general before the attack, and was there changes, how they were kept after that? >> that's a good question. dolley did save a lot of the papers. her husband had asked her to do that. she got a carriage the day before the british arrived. it was filled mostly with government papers, as the expense of their personal property, most of which was destroyed. but on capitol hill, there was turmoil, pandemonium, fear, co

. >>> a letter written in english by napoleon bonaparte in 1816 has been sold for $325,000. the manuscript was written by napoleon while being held captive by the english on the island of st. helena. >>> and legendary western sharpshooter annie oakley's shotgun has been sold at auction for $143,000. oakley became a superstar in the late 1800s, starring in buffalo bill's wild west show. a total of more than $500,000 was paid for about 100 items of annie oakley memorabilia. >>> and now here's our "first look" at this morning's dish of "scrambled politics." as speculation rolls over the republican's veep choice, mike huckabee doesn't think much of his chances, telling nbc this week "i think there's a greater likelihood that i'll be asked by madonna to go on tour as her bass player." well, mike, you never know. >>> former vermont governor howard dean got extreme this weekend, arguing mitt romney wants to take us back to the '50s and not the 1950s, the 1850s, even likened romney to mahmoud ahmadinejad. >>> gabby gifford campaigning this weekend. her husband told politico while sh

less a bluff that they would declare war and the british would think we have our hands full with napoleon because they're fighting on the continent of europe so some historians think that people in the united states thought they could just declare war and the british will revise our impressment practices and that is might be a way to take canada because that was in the original goal of the war was to invade canada and that the british might be too distracted to be doing too much in north america so they don't have their finances organized to fight a war and that's part of the reason why the war goes so badly for so many years is that there's no professional army and no organized funding. basically, the war is going to debt and the national debt nearly triples over the course of the war. it goes from about 45 million to 127 million after. so how do they finance it? they finance it through debt. >> as we begin to wrap up here, how would you say that the war of 1812 shaped america's identity? i think part of what with the war of 1812 did that anyone who serves the nation can be a patriot and

napoleon is out of the way by the time this treaty's deliberations start. the americans have not negotiated a place of strength. but in a sense, they get about the best treaty they can. it draws out. it takes a long time to come about. given the fact they didn't have a lot to work w they came at it with a very strong treaty for america. it was hailed that way too. it didn't hurt that andrew jackson then won the battle of new orleans after the treaty had been signed, but the news had not reached america. it was almost like the two things came at the same time. so it looked like we won the war even though the treaty had been signed before the battle had been fought. >> avery, can you tell us about the jacket? >> yes, we have the gent jacket here. this would have been given to henry clay to go to gent and go to peace. it's one of the few pieces in the collection that we have that belonged to henry clay. this jacket also served as an artifact during the time the kai a&m was here. they used this jacket as an artifact then as well. >> we're going to go back to te

he owned napoleon's penis that when he was receiving last rights, that the priest amputated his penis. i know nothing more than that. somehow through the years, it was placed in a wooden case and later on was eventually sold to public auction. dr. latimer bought it in 1969 and assured everybody -- now i never met dr. latimer, i wish i had. he assured everybody that it was absolutely airtight. finally ethan allen sword. he was the very proud owner of ethan allen sword. ethan allen was -- american revolution in 1975. so in 1975, dr. latimer re-enacted ethan allen's sword and his charge on the fort. so that is the story of dr. latimer's ethan allen's story, i wish i had got on to know him, but i did not. i became interested in the civil war when i was a very young man. i always write about the civil war throughout the years. and these are some of the examples of the most famous books about the civil war. bruce patton's trilogy about the army. this happens to be my copy, i looked at it the other day, it says 1962 inside. i was a lot younger. these are all fantastic writers, nobody can com

the napoleonic wars have killed the for-trading -- the fur-trading economy.heythey are very much a disspiritted people. and prior to 1805 it's relatively easy for him to do this. it's after 1805 when we start seeing religious revivals among the indians north of the ohio, most famously that of a guy nicknamed the shawnee prophet. that's when harrison has to change tactics a bit because they, basically, hold to the idea that no indian should sell any land to the united states under any circumstances, and that's sort of directly opposite him. so he's going to have to adopt a number of tactics. he tries to win the prophet over, and then he starts seeing, well, he's a tool of the british, and we have to watch out for him. but, basically, there instant any real -- there isn't any real, there are occasional shows of force, you don't actually have combat until late 1811. which, again, most historians will argue that the war of 1812 actually starts in late 1813. >> how long was he in this position, and when did his presidential aspirations come into effect? >> i would

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i think he has napoleon complex.n this case it's about napoleons, at least marie antoinette said let them eat cake. doedominion not to eat cake. go down this road it's going to get tricky for you once in a while, mike. what happens when they start putting 5'8" stipulation on height to get into the island of manhattan. you are screwed you are a bridge and tunnel guy. i find it odd that liberals get so behind this stuff to think that bump on a log taking a dump on a log at woodstock is now in bed with a man on all this sort of crap is just so weird to me. how did government play such an important part in liberal's lives? >> i don't know why the soda thing upsets bloomberg so much. but i do know he wants everybody to be slim. he wants us to be in good shape. he thinks that the giant big gulp is going to work against that. >> billy, the reason it gets to bloomberg is because he has to look up at the rim of a 64-ounce. >> always a height deal for miller. one more thing about, this it's very very interesting that in new yo

close to 600 people took part in the 13th reenactment of a battle napoleon's final stance. the participants acted as british soldiers and prussians. >>> in hungary dog lovers and their pets have a passion for plastic. around 60 canines competed in the european frisbee dog champions. look at them go. owners and hounds showed other off their skills leaping and chasing after tossed frisbees keeping dog and disc floating in the air as long as possible. >>> in china, dippers can go from the cloud. it's suspended with a transparent bottom that looks all the way to the street below. an amazing view of the city's skyline at 100 feet long. only about 15 feet wide. this one of a kind pool is certainly not for the feint of heart. bill karins, i guess you just don't look down. >> water is very heavy. >> what happens if there's an earthquake? that's one place i wouldn't want to be. >> never thought of it maybe there's a sign. >> no diving and be wear of earthquakes. >>> an early look of stories. a new round of evidence is expected to be released in the murder case against george zimmerm

it was written by napoleon while he was held captain by the english. >>> and legendary western sharp-shooter annie oakley's shotgun has been sold at auction for $143,000. she became a superstar starring in buffalo bill's wild west show. a total of $500,000 was paid by -- for about 10 0 items belonging to annie oakley. >>> and now here's an early look at one of your top health headlines on msnbc.com. many doctors are updating the way they communicate with their patients, e-mails, text messages and track disease trends on twitter, but some doctors still cling to pen and paper. the american medical association warns, while there are benefits to using social media, doctors must protect patient privacy. for more information on this and other health stories, you can always head to the web. check out the health page online at msnbc.com. >> announcer: "early today" health is brought to you by vagisil wash. >>> early an early look at how wall street will kick off the day. the dow opens at 12,554 after adding 93 points friday. the s&p up 10. the nasdaq gained 27. taking a look at overseas trading in t

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so did napoleon. and so do thousands of teens. erika tells us about a medical condition that is surprisingly common and yet not well-known. >> i was just reading in bed, when i started to feel odd tingling in my mouth, and i got up from my bed, went to my bathroom, and i couldn't control what my body was doing, and then i remembered nothing. >> kelly was just 10 years old when she experienced something she had never felt before. >> we heard a sudden thump. wasn't sure what it was. and i went down the hall, and kelly had collapsed on the floor. >> kelly was rushed to the hospital, where doctors did some tests. the diagnosis was epilepsy. >> epilepsy is a neurological condition that causes someone to have seizures. seizures can be described best as an electrical storm in the brain. >> for some people, an epileptic seizure means experiencing symptoms like shaking or convulsions. other symptoms may include staring or feeling confused. the sense of sound or smell can also be affected. >> in the beginning, i had decided not to tell my f

the napoleonic wars had killed the first trading economy. alcoholism is rampant. they are very much a dispirited defeat of people and prior to 1805 it is relatively easy for him to do this. is after the year year 1805 where we start seeing religious revivals among the indians north of the ohio, most famously a guy named -- or the shawnee prophet. when his four-year brother tecumseh, that is when harrison have to change tactics a bit because they basically hold to the idea that no indian should sell any land to the united states under any circumstances and that is directly opposite him so he pointed out and adopted number of tactics and tries to win the profit over and start saying he is a tool of the british and we have to watch out for him but basically there isn't any real -- flareups or maybe threats of force but you really don't have actual combat until 1811 which again most historians would probably argue as far as the ohio valley goes to to a war of 1812 starts in 1811. >> how long was he in this position and then wended his presidential aspirations come int

>> would you comment on what if any was the influence of the french especially the napoleonic war medicine on ambulance corps and others, a little bit surprising that we had nothing although it was well known in europe at the time? >> well, the flying ambulances that the french started in the 1850s and 1860s did have an impact on the civil war in the sense that we began to have ambulances and we began to understand that you need to take care of soldiers who were injured and wounded on the battlefield. so the impact was there. the specifics were not, it is not as if we used the specifics of their ambulances. the idea was there. specifics was not. so the answer is yes it did have an impact and would grow over the course of the 1870s and 1880s when the french became much more prominent with their flying ambulances. yes, it was there during the civil war. >> as we talk of civil war medicine, we often talk of just the north. >> yes. >> what about the south? >> well, the problem with the south, at least for me, and -- was that much of the southern medical records were destroyed in a fire. sherma

napoleon had the king of sigh yam over for dinner and served him with aluminum utensils. it was the most precious metal in 1940. even though the earth is made up of 4.3 aluminum by weight, you can't mine aluminum out. it was worth more than platinum and gold. which is why when you go to d.c., the tip of the washington monument was aluminum. technology made it so easy to extract, we use it with a throw away mentality. we talk about energy scarcity, but the earth is bathed in 5,000 times more energy than we as a species use in a year. it isn't scarce, it's just not in a usable form yet. the cost of coal larr is dropping. the amount of solar producing is growing 30% a year. we're 20 years away from being able to meet 100% of our energy needs from solar. the earth we talk about water worth, but earth is covered in water, 95% of salt water but there's amazing technology on line right now to make that into very pure, drinkable water. >> you want folks to think big thoughts and do big things, a billion people. >> yeah. i talk to c.e.o.'s in companies and people who have made hug

bloodier than every one of napoleon's battles, bloodier than the battle at crimea. americans were shocked. grant emerges who is willing to fight and stay the course so to speak. these victories inspire, both inspire union generals to send notes to the president and the congress saying, our job is going to be much easier by emancipati emancipation. we can use blacks. which is the next point. generals across the board acknowledge that emancipation, as a military policy, makes great sense. and generals like u.s. grant, he was no abolitionist. he was not even an anti-slavery person before the war. but he understood as a general that emancipation was crucial. the blacks are not only crucial source of manpower, but they know the landscape. of the south better than just about anyone. and the second confiscation act in july of 1862 is a kind of prelude to lincoln's emancipation proclamation. it frees all slaves within union lines. so it turns the confiscated slaves into freed slaves, makes them forever free, and it also urges the president to pass an emancipation proclamati

many in that generation of army officers accustomed to napoleonic postures regarded grant as little more than a man ui heat in shoulder straps. even a female visitor to the capital found what she called a peculiar aloofness in grant, and commented, he always seemed to be alone. the registration clerk at willard's hotel that march 8th was not impressed when a travel stained, rumpled officer appeared before him. the clerk offered a small room on the top floor. grant silently nodded his head and signed the registration book, u.s. grant and son, galina, illinois. a flustered, now fawning clerk reassigned grant to the finest suite in the hotel as the quiet lobby changed into a beehive of talking and pointing. shortly after settling into his room, the general received an invitation to meet with the president that evening. unknown to grant, the lincolns were having one of their usual weekly receptions that night at the white house. reports circulated that grant would be there so the crowd was larger than usual. around 9:00 p.m., grant made the short walk from willard's to the presidential mansi

they did it in napoleon ic wars and again in 1925, so doing despite the advice from france, they crushed labor, crushed the price level, but it was their choice. there's nothing inherently deflationary about the gold standard. it's the rate you make your currency exchangeable is dependent upon the statutory rate you choose. >> you could say the euro works in some way of the gold standard. the currencies that -- the periphery of europe became overvalued and now spain in a way -- the situation facing spain would be much the same under gold standard as it is under the euro with 25% of the population unemployed, no prospect of devaluation, and -- >> oh, there's a prospect. >> no willing prospect. a financial prospect. >> well, it's a heck of a fix, and i'm not sure that the gold standard is the answer to all these problems. but it seems to me that the record of the gold standard, in sum, is a record by and large of growth and in the macro sense and in personal accountability in the banking or the micro sense and perhaps the audience has some questions about whether it might be a preferable s

child tocqueville was born in 1805, met the restored king louis the xviii after the down fall of napoleon, and the specter of bloodshed and the tea malt of-of-tumult of the revolution and threat of another revolution was always in their thoughts. and he came from a background which considered the french revolution a great disaster. in the first lecture in this course, alfred recounted how the ideas of american conservatism had roots notice four cities, jerusalem, athens, rome and london, conspicuously absent from this list is paris. still ruled by a monarch in a centralized bureaucracy with limited power to a legislature whose members were chosen by a very small electorate. tocqueville knew before his arrival that america was different. something that he wanted to see that, it was a democracy. the word he used in his title. and democracy was something that the people in many whose circles he lived and the family in which he had grown up regarded with dread. the young republican evolved in important ways from the days of the founders revolutionary america was still a somewhat differential

riding her bike from tierra to paris to commemorate the march of the russian army in his defeat of napoleon in eight hundred twelve the only thing she had to conquer was a visa let's face it for most of us taking a mile long walk is already an accomplishment and a four and a half thousand kilometer bike ride forget about it but yulia says she runs him kilometers every morning in the winter and some of the snow melts she's back on her bike so this trip should really be a piece of cake. i often get asked why don't i take anyone along with me you are but how can i when you do come with me i'm not sure you'll be able to prove and i'm sure i will never go to see a doctor i never get to see the seventeen years i've been doing it because i only take a first kid some bandages and i'm just sceptic but comment. here is somewhat of a celebrity local politicians believe her exceptional physical shape and enthusiasm are just what people of all ages need in this day and age of a drive through fast food traffic jams and to be marathons. is the sport of cycling in our city who are putting a lot of effort i

trumpeting the accomplishments of frederick the great and napoleon. the u.s. army possessed no such literature of its own studying the campaigns of washington or jackson or anyone else. for those soldiers who continued their professional reading after graduation, lee was one of the ones who did, but most said, that it was very difficult to carry textbooks around in their, saddlebags while they were chasing indians. saddlebags while they were chasing indians. those european texts would have taught them that successful generalship, successful leadership, rested on two main qualities. those two main qualities were character and competent. of the two, character mattered more. character always trumped competence. a swiss military theorist, one of the leading military authors of the day, wrote, the character of the man is all above all other requisites in the commander in chief of an army. the essence of character, the prime military virtue was usually captured in a single word, and that word was courage. a good general wrote, first must possess high moral courage c

louis xiv made a copy, napoleon stole it, and in the 19th century, young aristocrats on the grand tour stood right here and swooned. in the renaissance, as in the ancient world, people saw the glory of god in the beauty, order, and harmony of the human body, god's greatest creation. classical statues like this clearly inspired sandro botticelli. for me, his birth of venus is the uffizi's purest expression of renaissance beauty. the goddess of love, born from the foam of a wave, is just waking up. botticelli combines the beauty of nature and the human body. the hands, wings, and robe mingle with the wind. with venus' flyaway hair, the airy spaciousness of the distant horizon, and the flowers, caught at the peak of their beauty, tumbling in slow motion, the world itself seems fresh and newborn. botticelli's primavera, or springtime, shows the renaissance finally in full bloom. the warm winds blow in, causing flora to sprout flowers from her lips. while the figure of spring spreads petals from her dress, the three graces dance. a blindfolded cupid happily sprays his little arrows, and in