the amazing story of a hunt that went wrong,
Jacques-Louis David's "Napoleon Crossing the
Alps," 1802 image credit from RMN (Château de Versailles), the hunt started like this, the event was organized by the Prince of Neuchâtel, Alexandre Berthier, to make sure the hunt was a success, Berthier arranged for around a
thousand rabbits to be brought to the hunt on that day, well he did not want a rabbit hunt with no rabbits! when the rabbits
were released, they didn't scatter to avoid the party of men shooting at them, instead, they charged, the men went into battle mode to protect Napoleon and
rebuffed the rabbits, but after a while, the rabbits regrouped and charged a
second time! and swarmed onto the
emperor himself, Napoleon escaped with his life, as well as the rest of the
hunting party, but embarrassingly they lost the battle, the embarrassed Berthier
was the subject of an investigation over the incident, which yielded a
perfectly logical explanation for the rabbits' behaviour, you can read the whole story plus the aftermath at Just
History Posts, it is a pretty good story, and there is even a chance that it
might be true.
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