[Leaning Right]

> Napoleon was exceedingly victorious. He changed the course of history. <

I’ll grant you much of what you say. But he did it in the bloodiest way possible. Mixed in with his reformist ideas was a tyrant’s desire to rule all of Europe.

early Napoleon: Wise reformer and defender of France.
late Napoleon: Monster who brought misery to all of Europe.

Pity that he could not quit while he was ahead.

[Menes]

I believe he began to suffer from megalomania, as he achieved one success after the other.

[Angelino97]

He should not have occupied Spain in 1808. Until then, the Spanish people welcomed him as a liberator. That was his first big mistake, bogging down France in an Iberian guerilla war.

His invasion of Russia was his second, and biggest, mistake.