Napoleon Bonaparte was not short, having an average height for his time.
Why it is true
The confusion arose due to the difference between French and English inches of the era. Napoleon measured about one meter and sixty-eight centimeters, which was slightly above the male average in France in the early nineteenth century.
Source: National Archives
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