Did you know Napoleon was trying to establish a sound money alternative to Great Britain's sometimes-convertible pound? Part of why Great Britain wanted to defeat Napoleon was to keep its world reserve currency status.

Maybe the wrong guys won at Waterloo.

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Is there anything written about this? Would love to read it

99% of history is a fake

this may be true

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Pretext?

Did you know that Muammar Gaddafi was trying to establish a pan-African, gold-backed currency for the nations of Africa to use?

No wonder he ended up dead in a ditch.

The victors have rewritten history again!

Remember how most presidential candidates chastised the present administration, but once in office continued or increased the printing? I don’t think Napoleon would have been significantly better.