In many respects, Napoleon is regarded as the greatest military general to ever live. And, well, he sort of is. Though he was an enemy to some, his military conquest impressed even those he fought. He unified Europe, and inspired many future generals with his raw power. He was described as intense, with Madame de Stael saying that he had a “profound contempt for all the intellectual riches of human nature: virtue, dignity, religion, enthusiasm”. He found them useless, and instead focused on conquering and unifying Europe. He went about this conquering by employing his own cunning and bravery, making surprise attacks in the middle of the night, to plowing straight forward brutishly through enemy forces. Tyrannical, right? Not everyone thought so. One of his officers, Marshal Michel Ney, thought that Napoleon should was the greatest, and supported him at all costs, even through exile and exclusion.
Napoleon considered himself the rightful Emperor of Europe, and appointed himself so. He would often put relatives or close associates in positions of power across the vast expanse of his empire; he couldn't control it all by himself. Economy wise, everything pretty much stayed the same except for the fact that Napoleon cut off all trade from Britain as a punishment for their ‘crimes’ against him.
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