I feel like I heard somewhere that French inches were longer than English inches and that Napoleon was actually a little taller than average. Not gonna bother trying to find what youtube video I might have heard that from, though.
His personal guards were tall. The comparison was not flattering. Look at the picture of Arnold Schwarzenegger with Andre the Giant and Wilt Chamberlain.
If only he didn‘t challenge the metric system. Talking about being your own worst enemy.
*Britons 🇬🇧
*limey bastards (jk)
Fun fact: the British navy originally wanted to bring lemons on their ships, since they’re higher in vitamin C and thus better for preventing scurvy, but they had made enemies of every lemon producing country in the world, so they had to make do with limes 😄