OLLI101637 - Napoleon Bonaparte

Course Description

Napoleon Bonaparte

Instructor: David Wesley Tonkin

Day of Week: Thursday

Dates: Feb 6 & Feb 13 (2 sessions)

Time: 1:30 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.

Location: Online via Zoom

Napoleon’s historic legacy is both intricate and complex; he is remembered both as a military genius and a ruler whose ambitions and decisions brought immense suffering; and yet substantive civic reform. His life soars from acclaim to damnation in swooping dramatic stanzas.

He has had a lasting impact on France, Europe and across the globe, shaping modern military, political, legal and educational systems and history. It is an accurate maxim to state that he is one of history’s most significant individuals.

Please join me as we explore and take an exciting journey through his life; in this detailed and richly illustrated seminar.

Maximum: 150

Instructor Bio: David Wesley Tonkin has traversed the globe many times and has appreciatively gathered a rich tapestry of remarkable and matchless life-lessons, vivid memories, experiences and opinions. He is a retired Airborne Cavalry Officer who saw service in the South African Cuban-Angolan Wars and as a UN peacekeeper in five African countries in the 1970’s and 1980’s. He has held entrepreneurial COO level and thought leader and strategic positions at global business training enterprises. In 2008, David was honored with the “Excellence and Innovation in Corporate Learning” Award at the 9th Annual Corporate University Awards. This highly coveted and prestigious global award is co-sponsored by The Wharton School of Business and Training Magazine. David’s eclectic range of lectures all benefit from his many years of global travel and the embracing of a rich collective of experiences and research to fuel his wide range of topical coverage.

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