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(Copyright) by Craig White (Australia) In the 1990s I wrote how Napoleon came across as a sort of anomaly when one compares him with the Holy Roman Empire’s emperors which I inserted into the book The Great German Nation (2007). But so were Mussolini and Hitler. Careful analysis found that he ‘ticked the boxes’ when it came to him qualifying as a successor to the Roman system. In this article I attempt to:– Demonstrate that Napoleon was a sort of Roman Emperor with some links to the Holy Roman Empire which inspired his legitimacy. In some ways he breaks the mold, but […]