This time, the battlefields are in France and the United States, where aficionados of Napoleon Bonaparte are slugging it out over how to best preserve the legacy of the little corporal, the Emperor of the French _ the subject of 250, 000 history books so far and, for many, simply the greatest soldier the world has seen.
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Through the early 1930s, the Napoleon High School athletic teams were known as the Little Corporals . Then, when Scotty Florence took over as coach in the fall of 1937, the Napoleon teams became unofficially known as the Fighting Scots or Scots . In the late summer of 1940, Napoleon put together a search committee to select a new name or mascot for NHS athletic teams.
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He was among the first to publish Christmas carols and songs in his songbooks, and included was " Jolly Old St . Nicholas, " the verses of which Lancastrians incorrectly believed he had written . ( Emily Huntington Miller wrote the text as a poem, " Lilly's Secret ", which appeared in December 1865 in " The Little Corporal "; it was set to music most likely by James Ramsey Murray .)
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.. . . it really seems as though old Hegel, in the guise of the World Spirit, were directing history from the grave and, with the greatest conscientiousness, causing everything to be re-enacted twice over, once as grand tragedy and the second time as rotten farce, Caussidi�re for Danton, L . Blanc for Robespierre, Carnot, and the moon-calf together with the first available dozen debt-encumbered lieutenants for the little corporal and his band of marshals.
