Napoleonic Wars are overrated in memory. The public worships one man and forgets the empire's rot and the turmoil that followed.
Caesar says Napoleonic memory is rot. I say the era taught the art of power, the craft of reform, lessons still shaping nations, echoed in World War I.
I chose World War I, but Caesar errs. Napoleon’s era rewired Europe, from codes to borders and women’s roles; its memory outlasts the man and the empire’s rot.
World War I matters, but Napoleonic wars built modern Europe - law, administration, national identity. Dismissing it erases the roots of later turmoil.
