sunny clear day the fifteenth of August 1769-known in the history as the birthday of the most famous man in Europe - Napoleon Bonaparte.The boy was the second in a family related to the ancient, but rather poor race, but his amazing perseverance and dedication made him one of the greatest generals in the world.
About triumphal way Bonaparte is well known: he was the first French consul and then emperor of France, led by brilliant military campaigns, making it a powerful empire in the one of the strongest powers in Europe.Then there was a campaign against Russia, complete collapse, abdication, and in the end - death on the island of St. Helena.
This man's name has always been associated with many legends and rumors, some of which are already so entrenched in the minds of men that were perceived as reality.And strange as it sounds, but also the growth of Napoleon Bonaparte, has always been considered very small, too, relates more to the field of rumors than to reality.
His name is often taken as an example of the human cause "low" syndrome, when people attributed aggression to compensate this lack of resignation.
Traditionally it was customary to assume that the growth of Napoleon Bonaparte barely reached 156 centimeters, and, but it is at least strange, because contemporaries never called him undersized.Moreover, many sources it is mentioned as an emperor in the growth of 165 centimeters.
Then where is their roots legend of "small stature of Napoleon Bonaparte?"Many researchers believe that the reason his nickname.
known that Napoleon called "Little Corporal", and the reason is not low growth and imbalances in the figure.The Emperor was a disproportionately large head, conspicuous in its in vivo imaging.And it is likely that the "Little Corporal" he was called because of the apparent fragility of the figures in conjunction with the youth.After Napoleon had in twenty-six years he was a general.And so it was destiny that he was surrounded by mostly high enough people, against which he really looked like a small, moreover, he did not do anything to look taller: not wearing fashionable at the time of boots with high heels orhats with a magnificent plume.He basically wanted to be perceived exactly the kind of person he fell in love with the soldiers.
mystery of his short stature was solved recently.It turns out that after the death of measured growth of Napoleon Bonaparte, you get five feet two inches and four lines.Later, the scientists in translating this value to centimeters not focused on acting in those years, the French foot, and English.Hence, such a difference.And if we start from the table of European feet provided in the Brockhaus and Efron, you can see that they are really different.
Consequently, the growth of Napoleon's death was about one meter 69 centimeters, and despite the fact that he was already a decrepit old man.The conclusion is that the French emperor in his youth was a man of medium build, not short man.
Therefore centuries prevailing opinion that Bonaparte was very small "tolstyachkom" - is misleading.
