Napolean Bonaparte

Napoleon was an amazing military leader, and that is probably the main reason people would view him as a hero. One of the main reasons he came to power in the first place was because he was a military genius. Early on in his military career he conquered Egypt and of course went on to conquer almost all of Europe.

Another reason was how he first started to govern France and reform it. Bonaparte was one of the main men who restored peace and order to France after the Revolution. He broke down a lot of the barriers and old laws that exited from the old regime that many people disliked, especially the common people. The people Napoleon found to support him were local people from the lands he conquered. Usually these were commercial and professional men, who were very eager to break down the ideas of the old government. A lot

On the other hand Napoleon could easily be viewed as a tyrant. Later on during his rule, Napoleon showed more and more signs of being a tyrant. Even though he made life a lot better for his people he still ruled them very strictly. If he wanted something he would make sure that he had it and if he didn’t want something going on it would stop.

Napoleon took many new steps to establish equality among people. No longer was a man’s bloodline good enough for him to get a good job and live a decent life. He made it so that careers were based on what people good do, not what social class they were from. He put a new focus on education and preparing young men for government services. He opened the Institut d’Egypt after conquering Egypt where many great studies took place. They even discovered the Rosetta Stone, which was a main key in learning how to read ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics.

of the common people approved of Napoleon because they wanted change.

It could easily be argued that Napoleon was a hero, but just easily said that he was indeed a tyrant. Although I wasn’t able to find as much information, or at least hard evidence of him being a tyrant, in the end I would have to say he was more of a tyrant then he was a hero. I think as he got older he wanted more and more power and got caught up in that and not in the things he first wanted to change. I think when he first started to rule he had some very good ideas about people being equal and destroying the social barriers, but to be a true “hero”

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