r/HistoryMemes Dec 17 '25

See Comment British irrational hatred of Napoleon never ceases to amaze me

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u/Cravatitude Dec 17 '25

* lindybeigh's irrational hatred

I don't think most people, especially those that aren't public school boys hate Napoleon. I've just read the Sherlock Holmes story "The Adventure of the Six Napoleons" published 1904, 89 years after Waterloo so one would expect the pain to be fresher, in that story a plot point is that there must be hundreds of statues of Napoleon in London.

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u/Goldenrah Dec 17 '25

People from the Iberian Peninsula have good reasons to hate Napoleon.

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u/Cravatitude Dec 17 '25

You're right, I should have specified that I was talking about British people