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Like many short people Napoleon probly had a downer on taller folks, since under his tutelage the average height of Frenchmen went down six inches. Link.

i]Napoleon Bonaparte was born in Ajaccio, Corsica on August 15, 1769, he came to power in the wake of the [Jew inspired 1792 French Revolution, and died in exile on the British ruled island of Saint Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean May 5, 1821.

"In addition to taking the lives of one million Frenchmen, indebting France to Jewish Bankers and bankrupting France, Napoleon brought philosemitism with him wherever he went." Napoleon the Philosemite & The House of Rothschild, by Bassiano.

He was a disaster area who deserted the Army of the Orient with which he invaded Egypt in April 1798, which after ostensibly achieving victory over the Mamluks, suffered humiliating defeat by the Turkish Garrison at Acre in 1799.

Where after he hastened back to France, his clandestine departure made public August 23, 1799 to be lauded as Conqueror of Egypt, there after to proclaim himself Emperor of the French December 2, 1804.

Not content with the Egyptian debacle, Napoleon Bonaparte launched a punitive Invasion of Russia with 650,000 men in 1812, incensed that the Russians were continuing to trade with Britain against his orders.

They got as far as Moscow where after Napoleon sent an envoy to the Russians with a note demanding their surrender, they refused to see him, thus deep in the Russian heartland in winter and with no supplies the Grand Armee had no choice but to retreat.

Under constant harassment from the Cossacks they tried to reach the French Garrison at Riga in Latvia .. whereas alerted that insurrection was being plotted in France, Napoleon handed command to Marshall Ney and was back in Paris in ten days.

Ney accompanied what was let of the Army into Riga then handed command over before he too took ship to France .. analysis of Napoleon Bonaparte's body tissue revealed traces of arsenic which was in his time the recognized treatment for syphilis.

The final indignity came after his June 18, 1815 defeat at Waterloo, when Napoleon Bonaparte on July 15, 1815 had a fisherman row him out to a British Frigate where he requested quarter .. the Brits sent him to exile on Saint Helena in the mid Atlantic Ocean, where he died May 5, 1821 at age 51 yrs./i] [Voat.