They said that Leipsic and the battles that preceded it showed that he had lost the ability to see things with a soldier's eye.

They declared that he made pictures and presented them to himself as facts; that he thought as an Emperor, not as a Captain.

They said that in this very campaign in France, the same imperial obsession had taken such hold upon him that in striving to retain everything from Holland to the end of the Italian peninsula he stood to lose everything.

They said that, if he had concentrated all his armies, withdrawn them from outlying dependencies, he could have overwhelmed Bluecher and Schwarzenberg, the Czar Alexander, the Emperor Francis and King William, and that, having hurled them beyond the Rhine, these provinces in dispute would have fallen to his hand again.

They said that his practical omnipotence had blinded his judgment.
Those things may be true.