Once blood is shed in a national quarrel reason and right are swept aside by the rage of angry men.
That was after Napoleon died because there is still a controversy as to whether Napoleon was poisoned with arsenic. And the French say the British did it and the British say the French did it, but he died before the test for arsenic was available.
I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats.