# 1812  ## Metadata - Author: [[Adam Zamoyski]] - Full Title: 1812 - Category: #napoleonic-campaigns ## Highlights - It was not a fight over territory. It was an ideological struggle over the future order of Europe. Atrocities aside, revolutionary France had brought into public life all the ideals of the Enlightenment, and her very existence was seen by the monarchical powers as a threat to theirs. ([Location 327](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B009YBU18W&location=327)) - Napoleon was in large measure driven by nothing more complicated than the lust for power and domination over others. ([Location 355](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B009YBU18W&location=355)) - ‘We must have a European legal system, a European appeal court, a common currency, the same weights and measures, the same laws,’ Napoleon once said to Joseph Fouché. ‘I must make of all the peoples of Europe one people, and of Paris the capital of the world.’ ([Location 394](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B009YBU18W&location=394))