I believe part of this image is also because George III was an absolute unit, so you had a lot of British political cartoons that portrayed George III as a giant in comparison to Napoleon
Sampleswift on
It’s also because Napoleon’s guards were tall.
Napoleon wasn’t short so much as his guards were tall and Napoleon looked short by comparison. Even though he was average sized for his time.
Ok_Finance_8292 on
THATS WHAT SHE SAID
I’ll see myself out
Woden-Wod on
Napoleon was short, Hitler only had one ball, and John Paul Jones was a kin slaying pirate who wanted to burn his home and family to the ground.
lesson, don’t make enemies with Britain we’ll laugh at you after you lose (‘cept jones that traitorous bastard escaped the rope).
DisasterHumor on
He was average height for the time you jerks
sacerdos-ex-spatio on
The general mistake is that when we compare the average height of a person from the Napoleonic era to today’s standards, people were much shorter back then.
IceCreamMeatballs on
Didn’t this myth start because the French tried to adopt a new system of measurement after the Revolution that had larger units than the rest of the world?
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I believe part of this image is also because George III was an absolute unit, so you had a lot of British political cartoons that portrayed George III as a giant in comparison to Napoleon
It’s also because Napoleon’s guards were tall.
Napoleon wasn’t short so much as his guards were tall and Napoleon looked short by comparison. Even though he was average sized for his time.
THATS WHAT SHE SAID
I’ll see myself out
Napoleon was short, Hitler only had one ball, and John Paul Jones was a kin slaying pirate who wanted to burn his home and family to the ground.
lesson, don’t make enemies with Britain we’ll laugh at you after you lose (‘cept jones that traitorous bastard escaped the rope).
He was average height for the time you jerks
The general mistake is that when we compare the average height of a person from the Napoleonic era to today’s standards, people were much shorter back then.
Didn’t this myth start because the French tried to adopt a new system of measurement after the Revolution that had larger units than the rest of the world?