The term  authoritarian regime  denotes a state in which the single power holder â an individual  dictator , a committee or a junta or an otherwise small group of political elite â monopolizes political power.
Napoleon height and weight. How tall was Napoleon? Napoleonâs height was between 5ft 6.5in-5ft 7in (169-170 cm). Napoleonâs height was 5ft 2 French inches according to Antommarchi at Napoleonâs autopsy and British sources put his height at 5 foot and 7 British inches: both equivalent to 170 cm. Napoleon surrounded himself with tall bodyguards and had a nickname of âle petit caporalâ which was an affectionate term that reflected his reported camaraderie with his soldiers rather than his height.
A+E Networks. At Waterloo in Belgium, Napoleon Bonaparte suffers defeat at the hands of the Duke of Wellington, bringing an end to the Napoleonic era of European history.The Corsica-born Napoleon, one of the greatest military strategists in history, rapidly rose in the ranks of the French Revolutionary Army during the late 1790s.eginning in 1812, Napoleon began to encounter the first significant defeats of his military career, suffering through a disastrous invasion of Russia, losing Spain to the Duke of Wellington in the Peninsula War, and enduring total defeat against an allied force by 1814.