If 24-hour news networks existed in 1809, they would have been falling over themselves chasing the latest news from the Austrian countryside. There they would witness first hand mighty Napoleon’s army moving across the nation with the fury of the recent California wildfires. No doubt on-the-scene, up-to-date reports would have worn out the viewer with the latest village sacked by Napoleon’s might. What would have been missed in the haste for the next big scoop were events that would have … →