Reminds me of playing with liquid thermal dynamics. Like warming one of those freezer pops, enough to melt the frozen parts around it, but cool it at the same time. So it becomes liquefied.
"Napoleon attacked by rabbits" so I had to go google search it. "The story of Napoleon being "defeated" by rabbits during a hunt in 1807 is a humorous anecdote, but it's not a confirmed historical fact, though it is mentioned in General Thiébault's memoirs. "