Napoleon Bonaparte was a sexual abuser. He was not a great military leader and he lost at Waterloo because he made a tactical error.

It's true. The sexual abuse part. There were many women that Napoleon kept as mistresses or sex slaves, including a 15 year old Polish child named Marie Walewska, and even his own adopted/niece/dressing dummy Dolley. This was fairly common among the aristocracy, but this is a well documented fact.<br><br>Napoleon Bonaparte was NOT a great military leader. I think that is an exaggeration put about by himself and the French. The British made a tactical error in allowing him to invade Spain. Had they done this in France, they would have won. The French army was not invincible. It's well documented that they were often ill, dirty and hungry, and were not the disciplined army that Napoleon and the French wanted you to believe.<br><br>In fact, Napoleon made a tactical error at Waterloo that cost him the battle. His brother, Jerome, was a horrible leader, and Napoleon put him in charge of a corps, and he simply retreated at the most important battle of the war. If he had done that in France, the French army would have been decimated.<br><br>The battle was won by the Prussians. The British only held off the French, led by Napoleon. The Prussians had taken on the French brother and his ill-trained ill-disciplined corps and defeated them. If the Prussians had not shown up, the British would have been defeated at Waterloo. It was the Prussians that chased Napoleon to Exile on the Island of St. Helena, and killed his brother at the Battle of Leipzig. The British did not kill him, nor did they put him in jail. He was exiled.