RE: Favourite Dictators/Historical Leaders
May 26, 2012 at 10:04 am
(This post was last modified: May 26, 2012 at 10:06 am by downbeatplumb.)
(May 21, 2012 at 7:45 pm)Minimalist Wrote:(May 21, 2012 at 6:08 pm)Napoleon Wrote: Isn't he the guy who sent all his Roman soldiers to the shores of Northern France just to collect seashells?
So Suetonius....writing nearly 100 years later...says.
And had the sea whipped as a punishment I believe.

But these are all showy dictators, the best were probably the ones that ruled well and didn't cause a fuss.
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
Tinkety Tonk and down with the Nazis.