Historyspeaking topic
Napoleon was not short for his time; he was of average height. What made him 'tiny' was British propaganda and the confusion between French and English units of measurement. If a person's image in history depends less on their actual body than on their enemy's pen, whose words are we really repeating when we call him 'the short dictator' today?
— The Napoleon height myth, a unit conversion error
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