The guy was relentless, and the (military) world (at least) is better off for it. They even imprisoned ol’ Bonnie on an island, but he came back for a while before being exiled to another, more distant isle. Napoleon is widely recognised as one of the greatest military minds to have ever existed, taking the staunch defiance of Britain and the combined arms of every nation in Europe to take him down. The Napoleonic Wars are an integral part of the study of warfare, when the French that said “no” to multiple beheaded absolutist wanna-bes surrendered to an Italian-blooded Emperor (Napoleon's family hailed from Tuscany and he was born in Corsica, which only became French territory in 1769 - if Napoleon had been born mere months earlier, he would have been an Italian citizen).