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I don’t remember how I “know” this, but my understanding of one of the reasons Napoleon lost at Waterloo was that he was complacent and over confident because he had the ability to leave his body at will and survey the battlefield, enemy dispositions, etc, from above. Based on experience in previous battles, Napoleon believed this gave him a crucial advantage and led him to take his eye off the ball. Napoleon’s undoing, however, was that he did not know that Wellington could do the same.
And perhaps The Battle of The Boyne was not the only battle that was more ritual than battle?