Positive Contributions Of Napoléon

Napoléon Bonaparte is seen by most as a butcher or a heartless dictator, but seldom do they remember the positive changes that Napoléon himself brought towards the world. Napoléon is remembered as one of the greatest military conquerors in history (Napoleon I, 2004), but people have forgotten the side of him that has influenced and changed Europe. Napoléon has contributed and influenced, directly or indirectly, many of Europe’s culture in science, government, and even arts. Without Napoléon, our world history would’ve been completely different than what it is today.
In the many branches of art, architecture, and science, one of the most noted scientific achievement would’ve been Napoléon’s soldiers who found the Rosetta Stone, which would not have been found if Napoléon didn’t send his historians and scholars after his army. Unfortunately, they were forced to hand over the Rosetta Stone to the British due to their Treaty of Capitulation. Another invention was founded by one of Napoléon’s surgeons, Dominique-Jean Larrey, which was the ambulance service. Larrey observed that most soldiers died because of lack of immediate attention, and thus, inspired by the flying artillery, he made his first flying ambulance. This flying ambulance consisted of 340 men, divided into 3 divisions, with twelve light and four heavy carriages. This improved the amount of soldiers who were getting treated to the point where Larrey reported that no soldier goes untreated for more than a quarter of