Well Yes. I never quite thought of it that way. A real inspirational, modern day political selling campaign for a defeat. Somewhat like the Alamo and Pearl Harbor.

Susan, you would have been a real political advisor over at Malmaison, Saint-Cloud, etc. That is, as Kipling said, if Napoleon ever took advice.

"How fair is St. Helena from the Beresina ice?"
An ill way--a chill way--the ice begins to crack.
But not so far for gentlemen who never took advice.
(When you can't go forward you must e'en come back!)

A Ste Helena Lullaby