The Napoleonic Wars: Lost. Temporary victories( remember the First Rule!) due to leadership of a Corsican, who ended up being no match for a British footwear designer. 拿破仑战争:输了。暂时的胜利(记住第一条规律!)功于来自科西嘉岛屿的领导人,他最终还是被证明不如英国的一个制鞋匠。
corsican
[ adj ] of or relating to or characteristic of Corsica or its people <adj.pert>
Corsican \Corsican\ adj. of or pertaining to Corsica (definition 2). [WordNet 1.5]
Corsican brotherhoods, impossible fish stews, bad Humphrey Bogart movies.
A 30-year-old Corsican was charged Friday in connection with the 1985 theft of nine impressionist masterpieces from a Paris museum.
Nine paintings that vanished in a brazen 1985 theft, including the Monet masterpiece that gave impressionism its name, returned to Paris on Thursday after police found them in a Corsican villa.
The villas, in a tourist complex in Poggio-Mezanna near this northern Corsican capital, were destroyed Saturday night in separate blasts, along with two cars bearing Italian license plates, police said.
No one was injured in the bombings, claimed by the National Front for the Liberation of Corsica, the main Corsican separatist group fighting French rule of the Mediterranean island.
At each bombing site, the attackers have painted an "R." The caller reportedly said this signified "revolt." According to AFP, the caller said the banks "don't serve the Corsican people.