[cripplecreek]

Look at how many towns in America were named after the great revolutionary in France named Napoleon Bonaparte. He turned out to be not such a great revolutionary after all.

Thomas Jefferson appears to be one of those questioning the greatness of Napoleon in a letter to John Norvell about the press.

General facts may indeed be collected from them, such as that Europe is now at war, that Bonaparte has been a successful warrior, that he has subjected a great portion of Europe to his will, &c., &c.; but no details can be relied on.

Robespierre is another example of a revolutionary gone very wrong.

[KC_Lion]

Look at how many towns in America were named after the great revolutionary in France named Napoleon Bonaparte. He turned out to be not such a great revolutionary after all.

Right, Napoleon was the Opposite George Washington.

Washington could have crowned himself king and no one would have objected, and anyone who did would have been shouted down, but he didn't. And now he has reached Apotheoses.

Napoleon went the Caesar rout, Literally Crowned Himself Emperor, conquered a Whole Continent, A French Corps was bigger than anything George Washington ever commanded, has a whole Era of History Named after him.

Yet at the end of his Life he was Failure. Living in Exile in the middle of nowhere.