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[–] Deestan@lemmy.world 77 points 2 months ago (3 children)

He is such an absurd historical figure to read about, the way he could get people to rally around him and make his armies work smoothly no matter what.

It looked like he could just wash ashore naked and alone anywhere, recruit a loyal army from whomever appeared to live nearby, and snowball it into a huge professional fighting force on the way to conquer the nearest city.

[–] CommissarVulpin@lemmy.world 30 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] FerretyFever0@fedia.io 9 points 2 months ago

Trump is canonically an scp. George Bush was someone's self insert named Dr. Bright (guy who made him is a pedophile) in disguise. Al Gore was also an scp.

[–] Contentedness@lemmy.nz 29 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I listened to a podcast about his life & times, some of the sources they used included his love letters which added a whole other dimension to his character. You have this immensely powerful and gifted military leader, feared across Europe, writing to a 19 year old he just met at a party about how he's just going to die of sadness if she doesn't write back to him immediately.

[–] hessenjunge@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 2 months ago
[–] TwoBeeSan@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago

I SWEAR TO FUCK NAPOLEON STAY ON CORSICA THIS TIME

no

[–] slacktoid@lemmy.ml 27 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Its cause the British and the French while both using feet and inches had different sizes for what an inch was. So a 5' 2" in France was closer to 5' 7" in England. But it's easier to say he is short and didn't like that.

[–] DmMacniel@feddit.org 22 points 2 months ago (1 children)

he was definitely average height for the time -- Napoleon Bonaparte

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 16 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Wolverine is 5’4”, but will Hollywood ever cast a short guy?

[–] tatann@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago

At least they acknowledged it in Deadpool & Wolverine

[–] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago

Cruise never seems to lack work 🤷🏼‍♂️🤢

[–] raoul@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 2 months ago

British propaganda portrayed him with his bones apart, it makes him look smaller.

[–] CyberEgg@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I don't quite get it. Apparently, Napoleon's height was ridiculed and used for english propaganda, but I often hear that actually, he wasn't a small person. I looked it up, wikipedia says he was 1.68 m. That's damn short though.

[–] peregrin5@lemm.ee 27 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Average height has increased over time.

[–] SplashJackson@lemmy.ca -2 points 2 months ago

5'5" lol that's the kind of height where you ask girls, "would you date a guy this height?" And you can see them visibly cringe before saying "maybe!"

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Napoleon 2: Electric Waterloo

[–] VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Still disappointed that Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure didn't use the song Waterloo for the waterpark sequence.

[–] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago

Electorate Waterloo?

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

IIRC, the short Napoleon was his grandnephew, Napoleon III.

[–] BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 3 points 2 months ago

The register of the fortress Ham for 7 October 1840 contained a concise description of the new prisoner: "Age: thirty-two years. Height: one meter sixty-six.

They were about the same height

Tap for spoilerhttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon_III

[–] FerretyFever0@fedia.io -2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Okay, but his dick was like 2 inches long though.

[–] Grass@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

good enough for my ear holes