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welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for the top 10
shocking facts about napoleon bonaparte
for this list we’re reviewing unusual
and generally unknown fact about this
French Emperor’s life including his rise
to and fall from power number 10
his wife’s affair was a tabloid
sensation I want you to write to me once
a day at least twice would be better
Joseph in the boil Nair widowed and with
two children apparently had quite a few
gentleman suitors in her day but then
she met Napoleon and became his wife
when Napoleon was away at war she was
left alone at home which led her to
start a relationship with a French
military man rumors of her infidelity
swirled and finally reached her
husband’s ears the man I love is there
it takes to to love what are you
insinuating
distraught Napoleon wrote a letter to
his brother but the message was
intercepted and eventually found its way
to a British newspaper man who printed
the details for all to read turning
Napoleon’s crumbling marriage into a
tabloid sensation this on top of the
fact that she hadn’t produced an heir
caused the Emperor to divorce Josephine
number nine he lost at chess to the Turk
anything can happen my friend truth
check
Napoleon was an exceptional military
strategist and the kind of man who had
to win at everything he tried that might
be why he couldn’t resist a game of
chess especially against a supposedly
almost unbeatable machine in 1809 he
challenged the rarely defeated automaton
chess-player known as the Turk at
Austria’s schönbrunn palace
unbeknownst to Bonaparte the incredible
gadget was actually controlled by a
person hidden inside it playing through
a complex mirror system the Emperor made
several illegal moves causing the Turk
to relocate his pieces back to their
original spots the Turk swept his arm
across the board and knocked all the
pieces off while tickled by the machines
responses
Napoleon was unable to beat the Turk in
a proper match number 8
he sold Louisiana to the US for dirt
cheap in his effort to take over the
world
or at least as much of it as he could
Napoleon began building an empire in
North America taking ownership of the
Louisiana territory in 1800 however the
economic effects of the Haitian
Revolution on the French colonial
enterprise caused Napoleon to relinquish
all of France’s territorial claims in
North America to the United States the
u.s. came to the negotiation prepared to
bind New Orleans and adjacent
territories for 10 million dollars
however they were surprised when France
offered all of their lands in North
America for fifteen million dollars this
purchase gave the u.s. over 500 million
acres of land at 3 cents an acre
needless to say this was a steal very
well that seems fair and reasonable it’s
extremely fair and reasonable
considering you could just conquer it
for free what I mean you know his troops
are tied up in Europe I don’t know and
you’ve never lost a war they fought one
war and we helped and we couldn’t
reclaim the land if you did take it but
please I beg you pay us something just
pocket change number 7 he wrote a
romance novella we are different
I will not try to kiss you again
Napoleon’s life seemed to have been
comprised of one failed relationship
after another though given his nature it
should be no surprise that he had a
tendency to sensationalize his exploits
but each of those relationships was
filled with a treasure trove of love
letters from la petit Caporal after a
particularly tumultuous relationship
with temporary fiancee Eugenie de
siècle he the future queen of Sweden
and Norway Bonaparte used his writing
skills to pen the romance novella kiss
all eight Eugenie the novella was
essentially an autobiographical account
of his love affair with cliffie
although pseudonyms were given to barely
concealed the identities of the lovers
the two most outstanding men of our time
have been in love with you
and you know real beauty but you have a
way with you number six he was more
Italian than French I should like you to
applaud to a claim the victory to LA
this general of 36 none other than
General Bonaparte that a man
inextricably tied to French culture and
history napoleon perhaps france’s most
legendary leader was actually not that
French after all the Bonaparte family
was actually from the island of Corsica
which was held by Italy until it was
conquered by France in 1769 the year of
Napoleon’s birth we must acquire Corsica
thought it has been considered for some
time well then I should not like it to
be delayed at a longer and before that
the Bonaparte days were part of the
Tuscan nobility in fact Napoleon’s birth
name was actually Napoleon Naidu
Bonaparte a while family and friends
affectionately called him Naboo Leo the
eventual emperor of the French only
seriously began to learn fluent French
when he was sent to school in France at
the age of nine but he never did learn
to spell properly quel dommage but much
fun say brother parte o Bonaparte what
about time changing names with him
number five he didn’t exactly get along
with the Catholic Church
hope we’ll think we’ve run into him
totally by chance I cannot let him
imagine that I would make an effort to
meet him I owe him no more respect than
I do to any petty little King you cannot
discuss the rise and fall of Napoleon
without mentioning the Catholic Church
on the outside he seemed to champion the
church in 1801 after the Revolution and
basic dismantling of the church he
signed a concordant to restore the Roman
Catholic Church as the majority church
in France and reinstate its power my
idea is to transform now cut them into a
greco-roman temple that is to say pagan
that is this is spectacular however
behind closed doors he was not devout
and was actually more curious about
Mohammed than Jesus his relationship
with the office of the Pope may have
deteriorated further if the legends are
true apparently he was to be crowned by
Pope Pius the seventh but at the last
second snatched the crown and anointed
himself so he wouldn’t have to answer to
the Pope
number four he introduced canned food to
the military during the Napoleonic Wars
the French military was concerned with
food preservation and worried they would
not be adequately able to feed their
soldiers especially when the army was
unable to obtain food in a hostile
region the military offered 12,000
francs for a suitable invention and in
1810 Nikola epic won that prize by
presenting glass jars that were airtight
becoming the father of the modern
canning process Napoleon must have been
extremely tech savvy for his time and
jumped at this technological advantage
for his militaristic pursuits number
three he always had poison on hand for a
rainy day
those stories vary as to whether it was
a pill a vial of poison or a packet of
toxic powder many sources say that
Napoleon carried poison with him at all
times
why maybe he was afraid of the potential
humiliation of being captured or maybe
he was terrified by the thought of the
torture that could ensue if he did get
caught they’ve signed the surrender and
your Majesty is on a bound respected
France has given her word so however he
finally chose to consume the poison on
April 12th 1814 the day after he was
forced to abdicate the throne only it
didn’t work the poison had been sitting
around for at least a decade and had
expired instead of dying he became
painfully sick and was cured by a cup of
tea and a good night’s sleep judging
from what I’ve seen ruling over France
brings very little happiness worrying
about the assignment brings even less
number two his little soldier lives in
New Jersey well he was alive there was
this obsession with his six life and his
personal life he was it was a celebrity
in the same way that we regard
celebrities Napoleon was certainly a man
of the world but did you know that
Napoleon has roots in the United States
well at least part of him does after
Napoleon’s autopsy his physical examiner
dr. fassbach callow antommarchi
who was left out of Bonaparte’s will and
you’ll see why that’s important in a
minute decided to take a memento for
himself from the infamous emperors body
what did he take you ask well he snipped
off his penis Napoleon’s little soldier
has changed hands and travelled the
world and eventually was bought by an
American neurologist in 1977 whose
daughter now owns it and houses it in
her basement in New Jersey and in case
you were wondering he was not that
well-endowed this is definitely a little
smaller than I thought maybe an inch and
a half was uh maybe two inches inch and
a half you think and I guess that’s what
happens to two flesh I guess none of us
I got a little too good after 195 years
before we get to our number one shocking
Napoleon fact let’s review some
honorable mentions it’s what’s behind
the throne that counts
my brains I ambitions my desires and I
hope my imagination and above all my
will
number one he wasn’t as short as you
think desperate act of a little man with
a big Napoleon complex
many of you may have heard of the
Napoleonic complex when a short person
acts overtly dominant to compensate for
their size since that condition is named
for Bonaparte the idea that he was
diminutive has persisted for centuries
British propaganda often depicted
Bonaparte as little and aggressive and
the rumors spread will stand before me
waving a piece of paper
crying abdicate abdicate however
Napoleon was the average height for his
time at his death he measured five feet
two inches in French units or five feet
six inches in the modern English system
you have depicted me as smaller than
mushy Tallyho well Saira I was merely
respecting nature’s proportions a man’s
scale is determined by his destiny not
by Nature Monsieur of course son
Napoleon himself is partly to blame for
the myth as he preferred his Elite Guard
to be comprised entirely of tall
soldiers which made him appear
comparatively short
no wonder they called him look petit
Caporal thank you for that do you agree
with our list what are your favourite
facts about Napoleon
for more revolutionary top 10s published
every day be sure to subscribe to
watchmojo.com now I’ll see you around
here anymore
Hey Munakata say miss you eat it buddy
hey
we do we can fight from zero to hero and
then back to zero
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for the top 10
shocking facts about napoleon bonaparte
for this list we’re reviewing unusual
and generally unknown fact about this
French Emperor’s life including his rise
to and fall from power number 10
his wife’s affair was a tabloid
sensation I want you to write to me once
a day at least twice would be better
Joseph in the boil Nair widowed and with
two children apparently had quite a few
gentleman suitors in her day but then
she met Napoleon and became his wife
when Napoleon was away at war she was
left alone at home which led her to
start a relationship with a French
military man rumors of her infidelity
swirled and finally reached her
husband’s ears the man I love is there
it takes to to love what are you
insinuating
distraught Napoleon wrote a letter to
his brother but the message was
intercepted and eventually found its way
to a British newspaper man who printed
the details for all to read turning
Napoleon’s crumbling marriage into a
tabloid sensation this on top of the
fact that she hadn’t produced an heir
caused the Emperor to divorce Josephine
number nine he lost at chess to the Turk
anything can happen my friend truth
check
Napoleon was an exceptional military
strategist and the kind of man who had
to win at everything he tried that might
be why he couldn’t resist a game of
chess especially against a supposedly
almost unbeatable machine in 1809 he
challenged the rarely defeated automaton
chess-player known as the Turk at
Austria’s schönbrunn palace
unbeknownst to Bonaparte the incredible
gadget was actually controlled by a
person hidden inside it playing through
a complex mirror system the Emperor made
several illegal moves causing the Turk
to relocate his pieces back to their
original spots the Turk swept his arm
across the board and knocked all the
pieces off while tickled by the machines
responses
Napoleon was unable to beat the Turk in
a proper match number 8
he sold Louisiana to the US for dirt
cheap in his effort to take over the
world
or at least as much of it as he could
Napoleon began building an empire in
North America taking ownership of the
Louisiana territory in 1800 however the
economic effects of the Haitian
Revolution on the French colonial
enterprise caused Napoleon to relinquish
all of France’s territorial claims in
North America to the United States the
u.s. came to the negotiation prepared to
bind New Orleans and adjacent
territories for 10 million dollars
however they were surprised when France
offered all of their lands in North
America for fifteen million dollars this
purchase gave the u.s. over 500 million
acres of land at 3 cents an acre
needless to say this was a steal very
well that seems fair and reasonable it’s
extremely fair and reasonable
considering you could just conquer it
for free what I mean you know his troops
are tied up in Europe I don’t know and
you’ve never lost a war they fought one
war and we helped and we couldn’t
reclaim the land if you did take it but
please I beg you pay us something just
pocket change number 7 he wrote a
romance novella we are different
I will not try to kiss you again
Napoleon’s life seemed to have been
comprised of one failed relationship
after another though given his nature it
should be no surprise that he had a
tendency to sensationalize his exploits
but each of those relationships was
filled with a treasure trove of love
letters from la petit Caporal after a
particularly tumultuous relationship
with temporary fiancee Eugenie de
siècle he the future queen of Sweden
and Norway Bonaparte used his writing
skills to pen the romance novella kiss
all eight Eugenie the novella was
essentially an autobiographical account
of his love affair with cliffie
although pseudonyms were given to barely
concealed the identities of the lovers
the two most outstanding men of our time
have been in love with you
and you know real beauty but you have a
way with you number six he was more
Italian than French I should like you to
applaud to a claim the victory to LA
this general of 36 none other than
General Bonaparte that a man
inextricably tied to French culture and
history napoleon perhaps france’s most
legendary leader was actually not that
French after all the Bonaparte family
was actually from the island of Corsica
which was held by Italy until it was
conquered by France in 1769 the year of
Napoleon’s birth we must acquire Corsica
thought it has been considered for some
time well then I should not like it to
be delayed at a longer and before that
the Bonaparte days were part of the
Tuscan nobility in fact Napoleon’s birth
name was actually Napoleon Naidu
Bonaparte a while family and friends
affectionately called him Naboo Leo the
eventual emperor of the French only
seriously began to learn fluent French
when he was sent to school in France at
the age of nine but he never did learn
to spell properly quel dommage but much
fun say brother parte o Bonaparte what
about time changing names with him
number five he didn’t exactly get along
with the Catholic Church
hope we’ll think we’ve run into him
totally by chance I cannot let him
imagine that I would make an effort to
meet him I owe him no more respect than
I do to any petty little King you cannot
discuss the rise and fall of Napoleon
without mentioning the Catholic Church
on the outside he seemed to champion the
church in 1801 after the Revolution and
basic dismantling of the church he
signed a concordant to restore the Roman
Catholic Church as the majority church
in France and reinstate its power my
idea is to transform now cut them into a
greco-roman temple that is to say pagan
that is this is spectacular however
behind closed doors he was not devout
and was actually more curious about
Mohammed than Jesus his relationship
with the office of the Pope may have
deteriorated further if the legends are
true apparently he was to be crowned by
Pope Pius the seventh but at the last
second snatched the crown and anointed
himself so he wouldn’t have to answer to
the Pope
number four he introduced canned food to
the military during the Napoleonic Wars
the French military was concerned with
food preservation and worried they would
not be adequately able to feed their
soldiers especially when the army was
unable to obtain food in a hostile
region the military offered 12,000
francs for a suitable invention and in
1810 Nikola epic won that prize by
presenting glass jars that were airtight
becoming the father of the modern
canning process Napoleon must have been
extremely tech savvy for his time and
jumped at this technological advantage
for his militaristic pursuits number
three he always had poison on hand for a
rainy day
those stories vary as to whether it was
a pill a vial of poison or a packet of
toxic powder many sources say that
Napoleon carried poison with him at all
times
why maybe he was afraid of the potential
humiliation of being captured or maybe
he was terrified by the thought of the
torture that could ensue if he did get
caught they’ve signed the surrender and
your Majesty is on a bound respected
France has given her word so however he
finally chose to consume the poison on
April 12th 1814 the day after he was
forced to abdicate the throne only it
didn’t work the poison had been sitting
around for at least a decade and had
expired instead of dying he became
painfully sick and was cured by a cup of
tea and a good night’s sleep judging
from what I’ve seen ruling over France
brings very little happiness worrying
about the assignment brings even less
number two his little soldier lives in
New Jersey well he was alive there was
this obsession with his six life and his
personal life he was it was a celebrity
in the same way that we regard
celebrities Napoleon was certainly a man
of the world but did you know that
Napoleon has roots in the United States
well at least part of him does after
Napoleon’s autopsy his physical examiner
dr. fassbach callow antommarchi
who was left out of Bonaparte’s will and
you’ll see why that’s important in a
minute decided to take a memento for
himself from the infamous emperors body
what did he take you ask well he snipped
off his penis Napoleon’s little soldier
has changed hands and travelled the
world and eventually was bought by an
American neurologist in 1977 whose
daughter now owns it and houses it in
her basement in New Jersey and in case
you were wondering he was not that
well-endowed this is definitely a little
smaller than I thought maybe an inch and
a half was uh maybe two inches inch and
a half you think and I guess that’s what
happens to two flesh I guess none of us
I got a little too good after 195 years
before we get to our number one shocking
Napoleon fact let’s review some
honorable mentions it’s what’s behind
the throne that counts
my brains I ambitions my desires and I
hope my imagination and above all my
will
number one he wasn’t as short as you
think desperate act of a little man with
a big Napoleon complex
many of you may have heard of the
Napoleonic complex when a short person
acts overtly dominant to compensate for
their size since that condition is named
for Bonaparte the idea that he was
diminutive has persisted for centuries
British propaganda often depicted
Bonaparte as little and aggressive and
the rumors spread will stand before me
waving a piece of paper
crying abdicate abdicate however
Napoleon was the average height for his
time at his death he measured five feet
two inches in French units or five feet
six inches in the modern English system
you have depicted me as smaller than
mushy Tallyho well Saira I was merely
respecting nature’s proportions a man’s
scale is determined by his destiny not
by Nature Monsieur of course son
Napoleon himself is partly to blame for
the myth as he preferred his Elite Guard
to be comprised entirely of tall
soldiers which made him appear
comparatively short
no wonder they called him look petit
Caporal thank you for that do you agree
with our list what are your favourite
facts about Napoleon
for more revolutionary top 10s published
every day be sure to subscribe to
watchmojo.com now I’ll see you around
here anymore
Hey Munakata say miss you eat it buddy
hey
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