[wildandcrazyrussian]

This, of course, explains how and why the French had a worldwide empire (most of western Africa, half of the current United States, Vietnam and Cambodia); and how under Napoleon they controlled all of Europe except Russia, which then led Napoleon's pridefulness to the 1812 invasion.

[dfwgator]

Of course, it was Polish soldiers, fighting in the hope of gaining their homeland back, that were responsible for many of Napolean's early victories.

[ConservativeNewsNetwork]

Napoleon was a Corsican, not a frenchman. The French have to import testicular fortitude.