Napoleon
French military leader, French Emperor 1804–1814 and again in 1815 (1769–1821)
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The Corsican artillery officer who talked, fought, and crowned his way to the top of Europe — then lost it all, twice. Two centuries on he's shorthand for ambition that overreaches, and the namesake of a “complex” about a height he didn't actually lack.
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Born in Corsica in 1769, he rose through the chaos of the French Revolution as a brilliant young artillery commander, and by 1804 had crowned himself Emperor of the French — taking the crown from the Pope's hands to place it on his own head. For a decade his armies redrew the map of Europe, and his civil code reshaped its laws in ways that survive today. Then came the 1812 march on Moscow, where winter and attrition destroyed his Grande Armée. Exiled to Elba, he escaped, ruled again for a hundred days, and was beaten for good at Waterloo in 1815. He died in 1821 on the remote South Atlantic is…
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