Although I never supposed that he (Napoleon) possessed, allowing for some difference of education, the liberality of conduct and political views which were sometimes exhibited by old Hyder Ali, yet I did think he might have shown the same resolved and dogged spirit of resolution which induced Tipu Sahib to die manfully upon the breach of his capital city with his sabre clenched in his hand. — Sir Walter Scott, commenting on the abdication of Napoleon Bonaparte in 1814
Although I never supposed that he (Napoleon) possessed, allowing for
some difference of education, the liberality of conduct and political views which were sometimes exhibited by old Hyder Ali, yet I did think he might
have shown the same resolved and dogged spirit of resolution which induced
Tipu Sahib to die manfully upon the breach of his capital city with his
sabre clenched in his hand.
— Sir Walter Scott, commenting on the abdication of Napoleon
Bonaparte in 1814