Napoleon is underrated not only as a military general, but as a builder of civilization and a visionary of what it could be. Too often he's just seen as another

Napoleon is underrated not only as a military general, but as a builder of civilization and a visionary of what it could be. Too often he's just seen as another general who was pretty good during that time when warfare was very orderly and everyone wore garish uniform. But countries were scared of him, deftly scared of him (especially Great Britain, but mainly because they didn't want another country that wanted to conquer the world as much as they did). There's a reason why Europe went ~100 years without another continent-wide war.