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Napoleon Bonaparte, who became Emperor of France in 1803 and was first cast down by a coalition of European states in 1814 and again in 1815, was a brilliant, charismatic near-sociopath obsessed with personal glory and indifferent to its cost in other’s lives was directly and personally responsible for greatly amplifying the length and intensity of the European and colonial wars that followed the French Revolution.  {How many deaths}

Napoleon won many great victories, but he also made some of the worst blunders in human military and strategic history. Yet in the particulars of his life and campaigns he stands above others as the near-perfect archetype of the dynamic, fascinating, and above all else, dangerous military leader. Every human who lives in an accountable polity should know, and keep check upon, such men.