... under certain conditions. I shall then compare him to other world leaders, who were apparently admired for superb personal skills (for example in the military or in economics) at the time, but through historical research it appears that they this is only true because they were subject to existing in a time and a place where people needed to admire, and project hopes onto someone. I wish to show that admiration for Bonaparte is much less due to his personal qualities and achievements. In fact, it could easily have been any other general who took a chance to get to the top of the French political system at a time when the French needed someone to admire. Primarily, when considering Napoleon's admirable accomplishments, it is appropriate to say that any man who was born of an island (Corsica), which was only a recent acquisition of the French, and worked ...

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