A closer look
Napoleon Bonaparte organized a massive rabbit hunt in 1807 to celebrate his signing of the Treaties of Tilsit, expecting a relaxing day of shooting defenseless woodland creatures. His chief of staff bought an estimated three thousand rabbits for the event, but made the fatal mistake of buying domesticated farm rabbits instead of wild ones. When the Emperor stepped into the field, the rabbits did not flee in terror, but instead assumed he was bringing them food and swarmed him in a massive, fluffy tidal wave. The conqueror of Europe found himself entirely overwhelmed by a horde of hungry bunnies, forcing him to literally run for his life and scramble into his carriage to escape. It is incredibly comforting to know that the greatest military genius of the nineteenth century suffered his most humiliating tactical defeat at the hands of adorable pets
