Another story is that, as a teenager, Napoleon fell into despair and was standing on a bridge preparing to jump off. Somebody talked him out of it.

His height was a mistranslation of the French inch to the English inch. Thank the work of one satirist for misleading the public: the British cartoonist James Gillray (1756-1815). Gillray’s caricatural depictions of the French general were so popular and influential that at the end of his life Napoleon said that Gillray “did more than all the armies of Europe to bring me down.”

There was an account of him disappearing suddenly and then re-appearing out of nowhere with a love of water slides…. Odd indeed.

@dennisdezarn5895

Жыл бұрын

Excellent!

@cainmathewson1857

Жыл бұрын

Shit, what movie is that from? I know I've seen that image of him going down the water slide. It's not Bill & Ted's excellent adventure, is it?

@ehrichsmiddy4663

Жыл бұрын

why no! its history my good man. @@cainmathewson1857

@ehrichsmiddy4663

Жыл бұрын

ok, yes it is from Bill and Ted lol

@mikepalmer2219

10 ай бұрын

Lmao. I wonder how many people did not get your comment. Lol.

St Helena was Napoleon's "prison" .. but he lived in relative comfort in a well set up house, not a put in a cell. He had the freedom of the island essentially though always accompanied by an escort.. rumours of his death included a story of his wallpaper giving off a poison at one time. In 1992 I served on Ascension island , which had a Royal Marine garrison in the 19th century. Their barracks etc still exist. The RAF have a base there, part of the airbridge between UK and the Falklands. There were also a lot of Americans there, tracking satelites for nasa. Ascension was also used as a "target" for missiles launched from US submarines... some nights you could see them as the landed in the sea some miles off shore.

@MissWitchiepoo

Жыл бұрын

I have also heard about the wallpaper there was arsenic in it. Not only that I also saw (it may have been on tv or a video) that there was someone who actually had a piece of that wallpaper and it was tested to contain arsenic in it. As far as I remember back then they used it in wallpaper.

@louisbeerreviews8964

11 ай бұрын

He was exile there

@cha5

10 ай бұрын

Is St Helena open for tours? Just curious.

@zephyer-gp1ju

10 ай бұрын

Not sure how comfortable it was. I understand there were a lot of rats on the island and he spent time looking at his old war maps and rereading about his battles. I wonder if they had put him in a jail cell or even hung him would that have offput guys like Hitler later on.

I would love a video about the Red Spectre that haunts that palace and French rulers. That's so interesting!!

@retro.raider

Жыл бұрын

I second this!!! So creepy, so fascinating

@lablackzed

Жыл бұрын

​@@retro.raider Agreed it would be a very interesting video .🤔

@Oppeldeldoc1

Жыл бұрын

I know from paranormal books that the Red Spectre is connected with many other important people, including Washington. It might not be difficult to look up the subject.

@charlesthedeadlifter4376

Жыл бұрын

Look at the movie Eyes Wide Shut. Look at the ceremony scene where the main guy is wearing all red and calling the shots. Maybe it was The Jesuits calling the shots. They have been since the 1500's.

@lablackzed

Жыл бұрын

@@charlesthedeadlifter4376 Seen it 👍

People forget that France used a different measuring system for length and height. 5’ 6” in French inches is 5’ 9” in British inches. Napoleon was actually above the average height of a European man of the time.

@tomhirons7475

Жыл бұрын

he was actually 5,7

@tomhirons7475

Жыл бұрын

measured just after his death, by us brits.

@larapalma3744

11 ай бұрын

Doubtful

@heliosgnosis2744

10 ай бұрын

And the guards he handpicked as his personal ones were also very tall over 6 foot. 5,7 was the requirement of the next guard level down then 5'3 for normal infantry, Napolean, being around about 5.7 surrounded by 6 foot and some "Imperial Guards "most of the time made him look short also, this is what is the thing left out mostly that kept the myth he was some short cocky monster when he did a lot of good in the changes made to every nation associated with France and France itself

@midnightchannel7759

10 ай бұрын

That's right. The Engmish made fun of hisnsize, but he was taller than Lord Nelson, taller than Churchill...

The narrator’s voice reminds me of the DNA 🧬 in Jurassic Park.

Can't wait for the movie this winter. I wonder if the Red Man will be in it.

Napoleón wasn't a king, but an emperor.

@cainmathewson1857

Жыл бұрын

Did he say "king" at any point? I might have missed it but I don't believe he made that mistake. And even then, it's apples and oranges. Japan has an emperor yeah but for the longest time he acted as the ultimate ruler of his nation, really having no difference in terms of power when compared to a king

@yja496

Жыл бұрын

@@cainmathewson1857 yes he did say king. Napoleon was a King maker and dethrone of Kings. However, he was an Emperor

@joseceniceros1928

8 ай бұрын

@@yja496 he was king of italy

@yja496

8 ай бұрын

@@joseceniceros1928 his son was King of Rome.

@joseceniceros1928

8 ай бұрын

@@yja496 yes, and napoleon was king of italy

Very interesting episode ❗💯🔥👍

cool video! I learned a lot.

General turned EMPEROR. HE WAS THE EMPEROR.

@julioalbertoherrera1339

11 ай бұрын

The best french general, with exception of some french heros of WW1, such as Foch.

I never believed that Napoleon shot off the nose of the Sphinx because upon close examination if the area had revealed chisel marks and those wouldn't have been caused by a cannon. I think that the nose was removed long before Napoleon to disfigure the face. What a shame!

@phyllisfager6689

10 ай бұрын

Ancient Egyptian rulers had habit of defacing monuments to their predecessors to erase their memory

@heliosgnosis2744

10 ай бұрын

And that head is not the original head anyways, so why does it matter? And yes, this is proven fact today if you are curious.

@talldreamyopposum

8 ай бұрын

@@heliosgnosis2744 its not a proven fact he shot them..... 🤦🏽🤦🏽🤦🏽

Napolean ruling a South American empire? Now that would be an interesting alternate history.

@julioalbertoherrera1339

11 ай бұрын

Not popular there, after the french invasion of Spain.

@TheKulu42

11 ай бұрын

@@julioalbertoherrera1339 Good point. But interesting if he gave it a go.

Seems like Napoleon was having hallucinations from gradually taking rat poison.

@cainmathewson1857

Жыл бұрын

Happens to the best of us

History is written by the winner. It has always been.

@cainmathewson1857

Жыл бұрын

Okay true but what does that have to do with this particular case?

@HarvardArchaeology

11 ай бұрын

Written by WHITES. Be specific. Thanks.

Montholon didn’t buy a “hotel”, as in, our idea of a hotel. He bought a mansion. “Hotel” in French was kinda like “Hall” in English. So, it had a title “Hotel” but was just a mansion. He wasn’t a hotelier like a Hilton. Also, I don’t think “Count” isn’t the right title. He’d have been Comte but looks like he was a Marquis.

@retro.raider

Жыл бұрын

Interesting!!

@julioalbertoherrera1339

11 ай бұрын

_Hôtel de Ville de Paris_ actually means *City Hall* ... 🇲🇫🗼🥖

Hey, man, I'm 5 feet 6" lol

Just thinking of Redman showing up to converse with Napoleon before battles is hilarious 😂

LOVED YOUR VERY INFORMATIVE VIDEO SIR . DEO VINDICE.

The Red Man needs its own video.

Red man sounds like Satan or a demon to me.

@julioalbertoherrera1339

11 ай бұрын

Not a good omen

I served on Ascension island .. it had originally been garridoned by Marines to prevent would be rescuers using it as a jumping off point.. it's a remote place to be sure.. Napoleon was kept in comfort in a pleasant house.. his autopsy showed his stomach and liver were in very poor shape...

“Among experts” *Zac Galefinakis sitting at the table*

The spinx nose was done by an alien spaceship that bumped it 😂

Napeleansl's time in Eygypt is said to be how STDs were introduced into Europe (Egyptian priests having long practiced necrophilia)... Certainly by the mid 19th century, prostitutes were spreading it like wildfire throughout Europe and the UK, but particularly from France. The late 19th century is full of horror stories of syphilis, wives picking it up from their husband's, and the first attempts in plastic surgery to cover ravaged faces. (Men didn't sleep around any more during this century than they had done in the past but the new STDs make it seem that way, looking back at history)

Napoleon subjugated spain? Precisely what he never managed to do

@robertgiles9124

Жыл бұрын

Just parts of it for a short period, and it cost his army dearly. He could just held onto North America and sent French there...and the USA would have become A huge French province. No Russian debacle.

@julioalbertoherrera1339

11 ай бұрын

He sent his generals and his brother but had to fight several guerrillas, which made occupation impossible.

You know I might just go with youtube premium in order to avoid political ads; which are only going to get more numerous as the year goes on. Worth EVERY penny!!!!!!!!

It's easy to see how the popular gag of crazy guys thinking they're Napoleon got started.

I can’t wait for the movie to came out

@0:16 That wasn’t mystery solved, because that’s not the whole story. He is remembered as being so short because that was the successful work of British propaganda to make him look as un-intimidating as possible which has survived to this day.

What’s the red cloak painting called in the thumbnail? Looks super demonic

I hear he was 5'7"... what a circus side show! 😂

Seems like emrakul doesn't want to be a world devouring monster and found a way to stop her own rampage. She's like a werewolf, some sort of curse?

Please and thank you for an awesome channel!

I knew it …napolean was dennis hopper all along

It sounds like Napoleon's Fever Dream was him reliving his past achievements. Not a Haunting, in the conventional sense. Just Haunting Memories.

What about the origin of the fire the second sun and the Accounts of Lt Artios and a few Russians along with generals. they all said a second sun fell

@VirideSoryuLangley

10 ай бұрын

I can't find any information about that, where did you read it?

Not sure about the sphinx or pharoah kafre's nose, but I guess saldin's son, al-aziz uhtman managed to do a little damage to the pyramid of menkaure on the giza plateau in 1196 ad?

@cainmathewson1857

Жыл бұрын

How did he do it without gunpowder? That had to have been a hell of a job. I just figured the statue was several thousand years old and had just fallen apart over time but I don't know enough about it

Napoleon wasn't "little" he was 5'6"

Is it true there was a difference in Frances measurements vs todays ? Though I heard that

I believe clo is buried somewhere under the ocean floor

I guess his height was kinda like what Vikings did with Greenland and Iceland…the great mix up haha but even that is a supposed rumor 😂

Napoleon was my favourite general.

Napoleon, was haunted by a royal imperial guard from starwars? 🤔

@julioalbertoherrera1339

11 ай бұрын

Napoleón was a formidable Jedi, but there was no light sabers, just steel ones.

Woop

What is interesting? Napoleon's troops suffered and died because they were not prepared for the Russian winters. This also happened during the Second World War. People don't learn from history.

Subjugated Spain? But we end up throwing them out and Napoleon itself told that the Spain incursion was his biggest regret, or failure. He end up without Portugal and Spain.

One story I heard was that when Napoleon was in Egypt he was taking a tour of the pyramids. It the great pyramid he sat in the stone container that had once held the coffin of a Pharoah. Napoleon asked everyone to leave and he wanted to be alone. Shortly after he came out and started going down, quickly. As they were riding away from the pyramids one of his generals noticed he was pale and even though it was cool day, he was sweating. The General asked Napoleon if he was OK. He replied he was fine and then the Gerneral asked if something happened in the pyramid. Napoleon gave a strange answer, "NO and don't bring it up again." Years later that same general went with Napoleon to Saint Helena. As Napoleon lay on his death bed the General again asked him about that day in the pyramid. Napoleon said, "Well, what happened was..." then he paused and finally said, "You would never believe." and never spoke of it again. True story? I had no idea.

@Ukraineaissance2014

Жыл бұрын

He definitely sht himself in there

@sakabula2357

Жыл бұрын

Where did you get this info?

@zephyer-gp1ju

Жыл бұрын

@@sakabula2357 I think somewhere here on You Tube. Been some time ago. Always wondered if it was true.

@RizztrainingOrder

Жыл бұрын

Ya I heard that years ago, he apparently was a part time necrophiliac that swung both ways and apparently the mummy groaned or something that scared him ishless, but it apparently was the best he’d had……….true story.

@sakabula2357

Жыл бұрын

@@RizztrainingOrder serious...lol..the mummy grouned...dude you got me on the floor..hilarious

I read he was 5-9

i was taught he was actually 5'4"🕵🏾‍♀️🔎🕵🏾‍♀️🔎

Always ignore the adjective in the title of these things. “Creepy”?

If you did a video on the history of the drug war this might become my favourite youtube chanel

The general made emperor, not dictator...

Somehow when I was a kid I was allowed in his private office. From what they said it wasn’t open to visit. But it had a globe of his. They let me touch it god knows why. They told me to. That was 40 years ago.

Only the nose knows.

As per The Sphinx, who nose?

He was measured in the French Foot at 5'2"... that translates to 5'7", average for the french at the time... kzread.info/dash/bejne/g4KBj6qmgcuuZpM.html

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Great drifter Napoleon😄

Hey nutty

Napoleon was not short by the heights of men of the day. He was 5 7 and that might have been a bit taller than the average Frenchman. The notion that Napoleon was short was brought about by British propaganda.

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The French were actually doing the besieging at Jaffa . Not being besieged themselves .

As a modern day American man 5’8” I can assure you that at least some short or short-ish men are very nice people! The only time I get neurotic about my height is when I’m around the rest of my family, almost all of them are 6 foot or taller, the man, of course. Oh, well, I could’ve been Stephen Hawking with a regular brain.

@calcaleb7041

Жыл бұрын

So smart but can’t move your stiff limbs 😂😂 nah I’m good

@Vee_of_the_Weald

Жыл бұрын

Move to France, Spain or Italy and you’ll feel right at home there :)

@pizzmo8256

Жыл бұрын

I have a friend who is 5'6. When he gets tired, I carry him. Kinding! He's 5"8. 😅

@soumyajitsingha9614

Жыл бұрын

I can relate to you I am 5"9

@MegCazalet

Жыл бұрын

Or Stephen Merchant. He’s TALL.

Yes... that he was also beaten in the Haitians Revolution

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That redman is the devil

He was 5’9 but sure perpetuate that lie

Pretty sure the Redman makes hip hop with Method Man.

Why didn’t they simply kill him and not hide it?

Nose way that Napoleon was the reason the Sphinx nose was missing

@julioalbertoherrera1339

11 ай бұрын

Some others say it is a myth and the nose was already missing when Napoleon troops arrived there.

He was 5 feet 8 inches tall ! At the time that was average, not short. He surrounded himself with An unusually tall group of soldiers which towered over him

@VirideSoryuLangley

10 ай бұрын

5'8'' is still average for men in most of the world

it seems like everything about him is just mythology lmfao, you’d think such a famous person would have a much more well documented life

He has Greek heritage

What kind of arrogance do you have to have to get a statue made of yourself?

The red man is Metastaphalis

MmmmhmmmM LMBO

FFS! 1) Napoleon didn’t have a son - well he did but he died during childhood 2) Napoleon was 5’7” which is a whole 2” taller than the average man at the time. The legend that he was short was orchestrated by Nelson who was 5’5” himself 3) Napoleon did indeed die of stomach cancer 4) his death mask is most probably correct. He looks very very Corsican in his there (high cheekbones, Aquiline nose) I’m Corsican. This is what we look like.

@Bill_tyler

Жыл бұрын

Hey just be glad modern “history” isn’t claiming Napoleon was blck

@yja496

Жыл бұрын

His son died at the age of 21. Besides this he had a couple of illegitimate sons too.

@sd4mg

10 ай бұрын

I think they meant his nephew, Napoleon the 3rd.

I'm two inches shorter than Napoleon.

Napoleon wasn't short. The Victor's write history, so who knows what other historical facts are false or exaggerated.

@SkyeSage17

10 ай бұрын

Napoleon also wrote" History is a set of Lies agreed upon by the victors".

I heard it was a woman in red...

Do Rock n Roll musician deaths

They consider him a short but for other reasons😉

Napoleon suffered with stomach pain before exile on St Helena so it is far more likely he died from cancer. Secondly in 2003 an X-ray of his sarcophagus in Paris showed that Napoleon was actually 5’2 to 5’3

Hahaha!! short

Viva Hravatska 😅

I‘m a far descended of Napoleon according to my family (mother side)

@susanmenegus5543

Жыл бұрын

That's cool 👍.

I'm to the belief Alexander the Great chopped the nose off the Sphinx.

Tussant took care of him

He also was black

I'm a 5'0 man 😅

I never have understood why Americans pronounce Moscow as "Moss Caaw"

@darkknight1340

Жыл бұрын

Possibly from the German pronunciation Moskau?.

@julioalbertoherrera1339

11 ай бұрын

*Moss Cow* ⛰️🐄, from ancient slavic "Mosskovya". According to the legend, the land was barren and frozen, so the only thing for cattle to eat was moss. Therefore "Moss kovya". Moss Cow.

General Bonaparte, the rest is pure lie as now

The stolen loot is in the museums and Vatican 😊

Should t bony not give his money to his son rather than a buddy whose wife he happens to b playing 😮hokey with? 😅 I hope 🤞 it’s in Belarus 🇧🇾 then lukashenko turns it into champagne 🍾 drinks himself blind la viva emperor le francaise 😅

Bro killed his fellow Europeans and still lost it all in the end 😂😂

Napoleon Bonaparte at 5'6", towered over the average Frenchman of the day? I'm 5'8", and if you ask me, he better have a big 'un! Lol Just kidding! I kinda like short men.... a lot of things horizontal, are not so awkward - but because certain things are, I can get a 68 and owe him one.

@SvenTSchixe

10 ай бұрын

Wtf? Lol