Napoleon complex

Napoleon complex

Etymology

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| access-date=5 November 2023}} Other historians assert that he was {{convert|5|ft|7|in|m|abbr=off}} because he was measured on [[Saint Helena]] 28 years after the French adopted the metric system.{{cite book|author=Owen Connelly|title=Blundering to Glory: Napoleon's Military Campaigns|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4Pzu7_QhfU8C&pg=PA7|year=2006|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|page=7|isbn=9780742553187}}
| access-date=5 November 2023}} Other historians assert that he was {{convert|5|ft|7|in|m|abbr=off}} because he was measured on [[Saint Helena]] 28 years after the French adopted the metric system.{{cite book|author=Owen Connelly|title=Blundering to Glory: Napoleon's Military Campaigns|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4Pzu7_QhfU8C&pg=PA7|year=2006|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|page=7|isbn=9780742553187}}


Other names for the purported condition include '''Napoleonic complex''', '''Napoleon syndrome''' and '''short man syndrome''' and '''Adam Marshall Syndrome'''.{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/earthnews/3336044/Short-man-syndrome-is-not-just-a-tall-story.html|title=Short man syndrome is not just a tall story|last=Fleming|first=Nic|date=13 March 2008|newspaper=The Telegraph|access-date=17 May 2017|archive-date=19 June 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200619213253/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/earthnews/3336044/Short-man-syndrome-is-not-just-a-tall-story.html|url-status=live}}{{cite news|url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,1069-1816456,00.html|title=Heart of the Fifties generation beats once again|last=Morrison|first=Richard|date=10 October 2005|work=The Times|access-date=17 January 2008}}{{dead link|date=September 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}{{cite news|url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6501633.stm|title=Short men 'not more aggressive'|date=28 March 2007|work=BBC News|access-date=17 January 2008}}
Other names for the purported condition include '''Napoleonic complex''', '''Napoleon syndrome''' and '''short man syndrome'''.{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/earthnews/3336044/Short-man-syndrome-is-not-just-a-tall-story.html|title=Short man syndrome is not just a tall story|last=Fleming|first=Nic|date=13 March 2008|newspaper=The Telegraph|access-date=17 May 2017|archive-date=19 June 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200619213253/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/earthnews/3336044/Short-man-syndrome-is-not-just-a-tall-story.html|url-status=live}}{{cite news|url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,1069-1816456,00.html|title=Heart of the Fifties generation beats once again|last=Morrison|first=Richard|date=10 October 2005|work=The Times|access-date=17 January 2008}}{{dead link|date=September 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}{{cite news|url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6501633.stm|title=Short men 'not more aggressive'|date=28 March 2007|work=BBC News|access-date=17 January 2008}}


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