Answering the Burning Question: Was Napoleon Really That Short?

Beege Welborn

One historian in the comments weighed in with some interesting data:

Good mythbusting!  As you know I've crunched the numbers on heights for tens of thousands of line infantrymen as recorded in their enrolment registers, and Napoleon was actually two inches taller than their average. He was average height for a grenadier in the line infantry!

Now you can go back to thinking about Romans.

Hey, never forget I'm here for you.