A young Napoleon Bonaparte.Few would have thought the young Corsican officer would one day be Emperor of France and the leader of a social movement which plunged Europe, and the most of the world, into a state of war.Napoleon found himself in a particularly opportune situation in post revolution France. As a commoner he suddenly was freed from the restrictions of the noble blood line so he could, and did, rise to the very top.His power in France came from the culture shift, he was a hero of the common man.This ideology spread and soon Poles, Germans, Saxon's, and other loosely organized states under the control of the Roman Catholic Emperor were flooding to his banner and the 'French' army soon became a very different beast.The national pride of the multiple cultures in Napoleons Grand Army where nurtured instead of suppressed which lead to the forming of elite units.The loyalty of these cultures show the underlying social movement.As for the two million or so people killed during the