Commentary
Napoleon Bonaparte was a man of limitless ambition and unbounded ego. Europe had not seen a man like him since the days of the Caesars: a soldier of obscure origins, rising to power, and holding a continent under his sway. From Corsican military cadet, to Revolutionary artillery officer, to conquering general, to First Consul, to Emperor of the French, making and unmaking kings and new nations, decreeing new legal codes, unbeatable in the field, his meteoric ascent dazzled the world.
