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The Underappreciated Nikola Tesla, and Other Under-Recognized Historic Figures

Khalid Elhassan January 12, 2020 32 min

Nikola Tesla - A New System of Alternating Current Motors and Transformers — Nikola Tesla. Pintrest

5. The Man Who Saved the French Revolution

French revolutionary politician, general, and administrator Lazare Carnot (1753 – 1823), is another of those figure who played an outsized role in shaping history, but who is little known today. Despite valuable services to France, he got screwed over by his country.

A leading member of the Committees for General Defense and for Public Safety during the French Revolution, Carnot organized and oversaw the mass mobilization of French manpower. It came just in the nick of time to beat back foreign attacks from all sides, and to snuff out internal rebellions. Those accomplishments earned him the nickname The Organizer of Victory.

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Khalid Elhassan

A lifelong history buff, I developed a particular passion for WW2 history as a child, when I spent hours listening to my grandfather, enraptured, as he recounted his wartime experiences in the British East African Campaign and with the British 8th Army in North Africa.

I graduated with a history BA from George Mason University, then went on to get a JD from the University of Virginia School of Law. After lawyering for a decade, I moved to sunny Rio de Janeiro and a less demanding career, opening a tourism agency in Copacabana.

A big chunk of my free time is spent blogging (you can follow me on Quora https://www.quora.com/profile/Khalid-Elhassan ) or freelance writing, mostly about my favorite subject, history.