what can we do what can we do what can we do we can fight from Zero to Hero and then back to zero welcome to watch moto.com and today we're counting down our picks for the top 10 shocking facts about Napoleon bonapart for this list we're reviewing unusual and generally unknown facts 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 Josephine de widowed and with two children apparently
had quite a few gentlemen 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 two 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 air caused the emperor to divorce josephin number nine he lost at chess to The Turk Anything Can Happen my friend proof 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 shanburn Palace unbeknownst to bonapart 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 it across the board and knocked all the pieces off while tickled by The Machine's responses Napoleon was unable to beat the Turk in a proper match number eight 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 US came to the negotiation prepared to buy New Orleans and adjacent territories for $10 million however they were surprised when France offered all of their lands in North America for $15 million this purchase gave the us 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 they don't know that 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 seven 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 leel after a particularly tumultuous relationship with temporary fiance Eugen Des CL the future queen of Sweden and Norway bonapart used his writing skills to pen the romance Nolla CL Eugen the Nolla was essentially an autobiographical account of his love affair with cl although pseudonyms were given to barely conceal 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 a claim the victor of tulong this general of 36 none other than General bonapar a man inextricably tied to French culture and history Napoleon perhaps France's most legendary leader was actually not that French after all the bonapart 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 corica it has been considered
for some time well then I should not like it to be delayed any longer and before that the bonap partes were part of the Tuscan nobility in fact Napoleon's birth name was actually Napoleon debonte while family and friends affectionately called him nabul 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 K but must say bonap or bonapart bonapart change and names with him number five he didn't exactly get along with the
Catholic Church the pop will 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 fedal 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 concorded to restore the Roman Catholic Church as the majority Church in France and reinstate its power my idea is to transform nram
into a GRE Roman Temple that is to say Pagan that is to say spectacular however behind closed doors he was not devout and was actually more curious about Muhammad 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 pas iith 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 Franks for a suitable invention and in 1810 Nicola a 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 HonorBound to respect it France has given her word s 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 woring over this island brings even less number two his little soldier lives in New Jersey while he was alive there was this obsession with his sex life and his personal life he was he 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 franois Carlo anamari who was left out of bonap part's will and you'll see why that's important in a minute decided to take a momento for himself from the infamous Emperor's body what did he take you ask well he snipped off his penis Napoleon's Little Soldier has changed hands and traveled the world and eventually was bought by an American urologist 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 or so maybe 2 Ines inch and a half do you think then I guess that's what happens to to flesh I guess none of us are going to look too good after 185 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 my ambitions my desires my 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 bonapart the idea that he was diminutive has persisted for centuries British propaganda often depicted bonapart as little and aggressive and the rumors spread you all stand before me waving a piece of paper crying abdicate abdicate I will not I will not not not however Napoleon was the average height for his time
at his death he measured 5' 2 in in French units or 5' 6 in in the Modern English system you have depicted me as smaller than M ton well sire I was merely respecting Nature's proportions a man's scale is determined by his Destiny not by Nature M of course s 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 Leal thank you for that do you agree with our list what are your favorite
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