Do Not Be Deceived -  Part 1 - Napoleon 

Ever trusted a history book that LIED to your face?

In a world where the Internet is an incredible resource of fact and fiction, it astounds me at the amount of historical fiction and fabrications foisted upon me in my Public and religious educational experience.

Napoleon - The Little Man Who Wanted to Rule Europe 

Imagine the most feared military commander on Earth. He was motivated and a brilliant tactician on the battlefield. He rides his white horse in front of 100,000 French troops along the coast, ready to attack the British across the English Channel. 

Britain is terrified . . . how could they hope to defeat an unstoppable army and the victory-hungry Napoleon? They decided on trickery in the form of rumor.

They hired a cartoonist, James Gilray, already on the British government payroll, who started painting the French Emperor as a tiny raging toddler in an oversized military hat, they called Little Bonnie (boney from Bonepart). Readers of the papers laughed. Fear took a backseat to the ridicule.

However, a measurement accurately recorded in French military records long before British records stated that Bonaparte was, in fact, 5 feet 7 inches tall, the height of the average Frenchman at the time. However, the Britts continued to report the General's height as 5 feet, 2 inches. No one corrected it.

Napoleon eventually admitted that Gilray's cartoons were more lethal to his reputation than a DOZEN generals. Turns out not beating the Frenchman on the battlefield was better accomplished by shrinking him in people's imagination.  

 I have always loved hearing a good conspiracy tale. However, AS I SEE IT, behind each one of them is some element of truth mingled with the fiction. 

"Sometimes those myths have been engineered by governments, journalists, and kings, who need you to believe them. History didn't get it wrong. Someone made sure you did . . . in your history books." https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/