Some Unit V (Age of Revolution) Images in more depth:
Able was I, ere I saw Elba -
Def: something Napoleon never said about the place on which he was exiled after the Russian campaign but before the last 100 day campaign
Image: a well known palindrome
"Let them eat cake" -
Def: the famous quotation of Marie Antoinette (that scholars agree is apocryphal) demonstrating her clueless and callous treatment of the French population suffering from bread shortages
Image: the cluelessness that can accompany wealth, power, and privilege
Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite
Def: the cry/slogan/motto/whatever of the French Revolution, translating as "liberty, equality, brotherhood"; given the way things turned for that revolution, it has a bit of an ironic cast to it
Image: as with Veni, Vidi, Vici, a somewhat easily lampooned structure
Rosetta Stone -
Def: a stone discovered by Napoleon's troops near Rosetta that held an ancient document written in three ancient languages; this enabled the deciphering of Egyptian Heiroglyphs
Image: the key to a code (like a decoder ring!)
Scorched Earth -
Def: a tactic used by the Russians as a response to Napoleon's advance, requiring villagers to burn their villages and all their provisions before fleeing
Image: to destroy something so that your conqueror can't have it and that you resent having to leave
Waterloo -
Def: site of Napoleon's last battle; defeated by the British Duke of Wellington and the Prussian Genl Blucher
Image: a final defeat, the thing that finally did you in
Def: something Napoleon never said about the place on which he was exiled after the Russian campaign but before the last 100 day campaign
Image: a well known palindrome
"Let them eat cake" -
Def: the famous quotation of Marie Antoinette (that scholars agree is apocryphal) demonstrating her clueless and callous treatment of the French population suffering from bread shortages
Image: the cluelessness that can accompany wealth, power, and privilege
Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite
Def: the cry/slogan/motto/whatever of the French Revolution, translating as "liberty, equality, brotherhood"; given the way things turned for that revolution, it has a bit of an ironic cast to it
Image: as with Veni, Vidi, Vici, a somewhat easily lampooned structure
Rosetta Stone -
Def: a stone discovered by Napoleon's troops near Rosetta that held an ancient document written in three ancient languages; this enabled the deciphering of Egyptian Heiroglyphs
Image: the key to a code (like a decoder ring!)
Scorched Earth -
Def: a tactic used by the Russians as a response to Napoleon's advance, requiring villagers to burn their villages and all their provisions before fleeing
Image: to destroy something so that your conqueror can't have it and that you resent having to leave
Waterloo -
Def: site of Napoleon's last battle; defeated by the British Duke of Wellington and the Prussian Genl Blucher
Image: a final defeat, the thing that finally did you in