Napoleon. A soldier who doesn’t want to be a general is not a good soldier. This allusion comes from Napoleon, the first French emperor. Legend has it that Napoleon kept a command staff in the backpack of each of his soldiers - the soldier could take it out to direct the battle when necessary. This is the free translation of Napoleon's original sentence given by later generations. The original sentence spoken by Napoleon was: "Every French soldier carries a marshal\'s baton in his knapsack". The literal translation is probably "Every French soldier carries a marshal's baton in his knapsack". If you have to translate "A soldier who doesn't want to be a general is not a good soldier" into English, you can consider "He is a bad soldier who doesn\'t dream of becoming a general." Read Napoleon's biography, and you can read it in an article called "March" The answer was found in "The Marshal's Scepter in the Bag": among the 26 marshals promoted by Napoleon, 24 were from civilians. In this way, every soldier of Napoleon firmly believed that there was a marshal's scepter hidden in his marching bag. As long as you work hard, you will most likely be the next marshal to be promoted. In a social system with strict hierarchies and great differences between high and low, this has an impact on people's hearts. It was precisely driven by such a belief that a group of French "motley troops" composed of three religions and nine schools of thought, showed unparalleled courage and combat effectiveness on the battlefield, making the whole of Europe look like a tiger.