Was napolean's career a sucess or failure?

Question

please give examples and detailed reasons

Answer 1

Hard question. It depends on how you would define failure and success.

He achieved almost everything he set out to do. It was maintaining the status quo he created that did not work.

He became an immortally famous Frenchman that conquered almost all the known (desired) world. I'd call that pretty successfully.

Critics of Napoleon argue that his true legacy was a loss of status for France and many needless deaths:

"After all, the military record is unquestioned—17 years of wars, perhaps six million Europeans dead, France bankrupt, her overseas colonies lost. And it was all such a great waste, for when the self-proclaimed tête d'armée was done, France's "losses were permanent" and she "began to slip from her position as the leading power in Europe to second-class status—that was Bonaparte's true legacy."

The Duke of Wellington, Sir Arthur Wellesley, when asked who he thought was the greatest general that ever lived, answered "In this age, in past ages, in any age, Napoleon."

Answer 2

many see is it as either one. those who saw it as a failure was because he was sent an island for a form of solitary confinement. those who saw it as a success look at his willingness as a military leader. i think its how YOU see his career